Kathy Riordan
- Location
- Florida, United States
- Birthday
- April 27
- Bio
- One woman's view of life and the universe.
Follow @katriord on Twitter.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Okay, the cheesy puff
tsunami got me.”
10:13AM - “Very sad. Bound to
happen, I expect,
though.”
10:11AM - “Very sad, but bound to
happen. I have to wonder if
any of
these recent
suicides…”
10:09AM - “Donna, I'm not making a
statement on the legislation;
I'm
making a statement on
t…”
10:07AM - “Great feature. I imagine
that will come in very handy
to
many.”
9:38AM
Kathy Riordan's Links
- What I Can't Write About
- The Best News Yet
- In My Mother's Arms
- To a Younger Sister
- Do Not Disturb
- Taking the Red-Eye
- Breath of Life
- Tears
- do not resuscitate
- Vigil
- What I Can't Write About
- Poetry, if you like that sort of thing:
- At the Public House
- Dear Girl
- it wasn't long, the time that was
- Base Camp in Muddy Bottom
- in tribute to stevie smith
- After the Having, Having Had
- Silver
- There Is No Insurance for This
- Pretty Maids All In a Row
- I Thought I'd Write a Little Villanelle
- At the Beguinage (for Megan)
- Daddy Did You Dream Me Up
- Christmas
- Silver
- Signs and Wonders, and a Christmas Miracle
- The Christmas Baby
- The Ecumenical, Geographical, All-Inclusive Christmas Feast
- Making a List, Checking it Twice
- Santa Dog
- The Dreaded Holiday Letter
- When Santa Was My Grandpa
- A Naked Christmas
- E-Readers and iPhones and Coffee, Oh My! Holiday 2009 Guide
- Favorite Homemade Family Gifts for Christmas
- New to Open Salon?
- Best Posts of Open Salon 2009
- Introduction to Some Great Reads on Open Salon
- Where I've been, where I'm going:
- Paris
- Under a New Mexico Sky
- Casting the Movie of My Life
- Muffin
- Sagebrush and Funeral Potatoes
- Saying Goodbye to Summer at the Cottage
- Twitter from the Inside:
- Twitter Is What You Make It: Who to Follow, and Why
- Posts on World War II:
- Honoring My Soldiers, My Heroes on Veterans Day
- Letter from an American World War II Soldier to His Parents
- On the 65th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden
- Tom Hanks to Bring "Beyond All Boundaries" to WWII Museum
- Some of my work on Iran:
- "The Anonymous" Behind Neda Video Awarded Prestigious Polk
- Iran Fabricates Interpol Involvement in Neda Investigation
- Doctor Claims to Identify Neda's Killer
- Doctor in Neda Video Arrives Safely in London
- Not that Neda: How the Wrong Photo Became an Icon
- Updates on Neda, Symbol of a Revolution
- Her Name Was Neda
- Some of my favorite posts:
- When Mayo Clinic Speaks, I Listen
- Incognito in Istanbul
- Such a Death
- I also write here:
- In My Life
- Journeys
Photo of trainer Dawn Brancheau with one of the killer whales at SeaWorld. Brancheau lost her life in an accident with the largest of the orcas, Tillikum, at the Orlando park on February 24. Her family is seeking an injunction to prevent release of video of her death. … Read full post »
Triage is one of my favorite words, because it describes so well what no other word can--the assessing of a situation, and prioritizing a response to it.
In medical terms, it's generally the first, or possibly the second, thing that happens to a patient when they present in an… Read full post »
Virl and Tom Osmond, the oldest of the Osmond
siblings. Although significant hearing impairment kept them
from being part of the performing family, their disability was the
inspiration for the creation of the Children's Miracle
Network.
As the Osmond family is laying to rest… Read full post »
The Classiest Oscar Acceptance Speech Ever
The United States
Postal Service honored Hattie McDaniel with a 39 cent Black
Heritage stamp in 2006, showing her as she was dressed that
February night in 1940 when she accepted the Academy
Award. Water, Water Everywhere
That I grew up near one of the deepest glacier lakes in North America might have had something to do with it.
Fremont Lake is eleven miles long, a half mile wide, around 600 feet deep at its deepest point with a stretch of sandy beach at one end… Read full post »
Oscar Memories: Saying Goodbye to The Duke
Everyone has those moments most seared in memory
from Academy Award shows past, whether it's Barbra Streisand
tripping on her way up to collect a Best Actress for Funny Girl,
Louise
Fletcher thanking her parents in sign language, or the
unforgettable streaker behind David
Niven in… Read full post »
The Seventh Inning Stretch: Spring Training Redux
I'm not sure how it happened, but in a flash while my husband and I were debating who would get up to go out to get hot dogs, a ball cracked off a bat and came back of third base and into the stands, where it missed my head by inches… Read full post »
I first heard the name Pippi Longstocking as a young girl, waist high to my grandfather walking along the Union Pacific tracks in a Wyoming railroad town.
A block past the depot was the county library, an old historic building all white, filled with books and linoleum and dusty… Read full post »
Dude, Where's My iPad?
Note to Apple: It's March.
Where's my iPad?
Sources are reporting they're sneaking into the Apple stores next week so employees can get their hands on them first, but not available to the rest of us until March 26th. And that's just for the regular WiFi ones.
Legendary film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times made headlines Tuesday when he debuted a new computer voice on Oprah.
Ebert, who lost the ability to speak in 2006 due to cancer surgery, has used computer-generated voices in the meantime, but the new voice is special b… Read full post »
Five Little Words: At the Public House
at the public house
Spittle kisses, kisses far
Barred and cloaked,
The oak and tar.
Tarnished lyre
The fire stoked
Upon the spit,
Death ajar.
Not everyone huddled around the water cooler this morning
is scratching their head over Jake picking Vienna on The Bachelor.
Some are officially on Paterson resign watch, as the
embattled New York governor soldiers on in the face of a gathering
storm.
Calls for the governor's resi… Read full post »
The NASA Photos: That Great Blue Marble We Call Earth
NASA recently uploaded to their Flickr account the best photographs taken of planet Earth yet.
The Blue Marble: The Next Generation are a series of photographs taken aboard NASA's Terra satellite in 2001 using special imaging data and stitched together to render the most… Read full post »
In Memory of Dawn Brancheau
Dawn Brancheau, the SeaWorld trainer who lost her life last week, is being buried today in Chicago, following a wake last night and funeral services this morning. Below is her obituary, along with the video tribute that was shown as the 'Believe' show resumed at SeaWorld in her memory on Saturd… Read full post »
Score! And the Crowd Goes Wild
Cathy's Tuscan Bean Chili
One of the most delicious meals I ever enjoyed was divine in its simplicity, a glorious Tuscan bean chili at its heart.
The creator was an angel, who shared with me as a special gift her recipe.
TUSCAN BEAN CHILI
Brown and drain:
1 large onion,… Read full post »
Dear Girl
look up
lighten up
laugh
it's not so bad
it'll be fine
incline
recline
find the time
bind the ties
the ties that bind
fine
it will be
you've got time
time enough
it'll be rough
buck up
up and up
look up
take the buck
find your luck… Read full post »
Tillikum, or 'Tilly,' the orca involved in this week's tragic death of a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando. SeaWorld President and CEO Jim Atchison confirmed Friday that Tilly will remain at SeaWorld and that killer whale shows will resume.
In the wake of the tragic death of kill… Read full post »
Actor Joshua 'Andrew' Koenig, 41, who was reported missing in the Vancouver area after February 14th. Koenig's body was discovered Thursday in Stanley Park in Vancouver by friends and family, who had initiated their own search of an area that Andrew loved.
"My son took his… Read full post »
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An orca (killer whale) in the wild. Orcas have been kept in captivity in aquariums and theme parks in recent decades, a controversial practice likely to become more controversial following the Wednesday death of a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando.
Shamu Sta… Read full post »
There were tears in her eyes at the end of the routine,
and in her father's, but Canadian skater Joannie Rochette took to
the ice Tuesday night just two days after the death of her
mother.
Rochette, 24, from Quebec, earned a 71.36 personal best score in the short… Read full post »
The True Cost of Free Pancakes
Yes, it's National Pancake Day again, and to commemorate some food chains are offering free pancakes to their customers.
Here's what those pancakes really cost:
Two gallons of gas to go to and from the local pancake house - $6
Another gallon of gas run to have the air… Read full post »
Birds of a Feather Ice Dance Together
Several airlines have allowed smaller domestic pets to be carried aboard aircraft and stowed under the seat, for a charge, in hard or soft approved carriers like the one above. An editorial in a Canadian medical journal is calling for a ban on pets aboard aircraft, citing risks to… Read full post »
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, and Silly Pet Names
A Sunday collaboration. A story. And a dog.
I haven't read The Second Sex for years. College, maybe. There it sits, up north, on a certainly by now dusty bookshelf over winter, along with Copleston's A History of Philosophy (the complete set) and Marchette… Read full post »
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Celebrities in Africa: are we grossed out or grateful?
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drawing- interpreted
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The Lost Boy: Corey Haim Found Dead
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On a OS Meet Up going ON Tonight!!
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My Interview with the Man Who Wasn't There
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Giant Crouton Breaks Off France, Blocks Shipping Lanes
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Another 80s Star Gone
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Cyclists Have Directions from Google Maps
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