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 POSTS
- Last Dinner On the Titanic
April 14, 2012 08:44PM - One More Trip Around the Sun
February 29, 2012 03:47PM - Perfect Vision
February 09, 2012 12:46PM - The Good Year
December 31, 2011 08:39AM - Christmas, Party of One
December 26, 2011 10:19AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I always blame the
parents, who generally not
only exercise
bad judgment in
where…”
May 23, 2012 12:16PM - “Maria, she survived and
is doing well. She did have a
total
of three months in
t…”
May 22, 2012 08:52AM - “I am so happy to see
this excellent piece did not
go
unnoticed and got the
attent…”
April 16, 2012 01:08PM - “I am so very sorry, Ann.
The Frost reference is
apt.”
April 16, 2012 01:07PM - “This is very special,
Ande. Thanks for sharing it.
Before we
were ever
engaged,…”
April 15, 2012 09:56PM
Kathy Riordan's Links
- What I Can't Write About
- Floating
- The Strong One
- 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:
- The Sound of Trees
- 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?
- Your Friends on 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:
- Index: all posts on Iran and Neda
- "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:
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- In My Life
- Journeys
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose re-election on June 12th led to a wave of opposition protest and violence, has been sworn in before Iran's parliament to a second four-year term.
The inauguration, which began about 9:15 a.m. local time, follows two days after Ahmadinejad was formally endorsed… Read full post »
American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling have been formally pardoned by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, the official state news agency (KCNA) has reported.
In a statement released in the past hour, KCNA tells, "Kim Jong-il issued an order. . .granting a special pardon… Read full post »
Multiple sources are reporting this evening that former U.S. President Bill Clinton is en route to North Korea to help negotiate the release of American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling.
ABC's Jake Tapper reported at 9:40 p.m. EDT that Clinton was on his way to help free the… Read full post »
President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been granted the endorsement of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a ceremony two days ahead of that country's scheduled inauguration.
The formal blessing Monday marks a key step leading up to Wednesday's inauguration be… Read full post »
I remember exactly where I was the night the I-35W bridge collapsed in Minneapolis two years ago. And I remember exactly where I was supposed to be.
Two years ago tonight, I was supposed… Read full post »
Flower power in Tehran as mourners mark the 40th day since the death of Neda Agha-Soltan and other victims of post-election violence in Iran. Photo courtesy of Farhad Rajabali for gooya.com.
Mourners in Iran commemorating the fortieth day anniversary today of the death of… Read full post »
Music teacher Hamad Panahi, seen above in blue-and-white stripe shirt, left with Neda Agha-Soltan (circled) prior to her shooting, and right, attending to her after the shooting. To the right in white shirt is Dr. Arash Hejazi.
Press TV, Iran's state-run televi… Read full post »
Photo of Masoud Heshemzadeh, 27, who was killed in the unrest in Iran on June 20, 2009.
The father of a young man shot and killed during the post-election unrest in Iran is reported to have been arrested by authorities for mourning his son.
Masoud Hashemzadeh (Masoud… Read full post »
Barneys windows that just met their end, first posted by Racked.com.
In a city where visuals are everything, some window displays in Barneys New York just met a swift death.
A recent display of mannequins depicted meeting violent ends while wearing the likes of He… Read full post »
Apple has confirmed the suicide of a worker for Foxconn Corporation in China who was interrogated last week after the components of an iPhone prototype on which he was working went missing.
Sun Danyong (Yong Sun Dan), 25, was reported by multiple sources to have jumped from a window on the… Read full post »
The doctor who attempted to administer aid to Iranian student Neda Agha-Soltan after she was shot in the chest on the streets of Tehran Saturday, June 20, 2009, has claimed today to identify her killer.
I am live-tweeting the Michael Jackson Memorial as it is being broadcast live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Tweets will be in reverse order, with updates at the top of the article as they are posted. Refresh screen for updates:
*This concludes
… Read full post »
A claim made by Iran's Chief of Police, Brig. Gen. Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam, that Interpol was actively seeking the whereabouts of Dr. Arash Hejazi, admitted witness to the murder of Neda Agha-Soltan, has been revealed to be false.
Iran's Press TV earlier reported that Ahmadi-Moqaddam st… Read full post »
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose recent re-election in Iran as the country's president has been disputed and erupted the country into violent protests, has ordered an investigation into the most high-profile of those recent deaths, that of student Neda Agha-Soltan.
Soltan, 26, was shot… Read full post »
There are some people we just assume will die
young. We've become accustomed to it. We imagine
somewhere in the sky is a great banquet table filled with JFK, his
brother and his son, Buddy Holly, Elvis, Princess Grace, Marilyn
Monroe, and of course, Princess Diana.
Of all the… Read full post »
In several instances since her shooting death on the streets of Tehran a week ago, the Iranian government has sought to discredit the death of Neda Agha-Soltan, the 26-year-old student of music and philosophy, and to distance itself from any responsibility for it.
Six day… Read full post »
Pretty sure it was 1977. College. I'd get up every morning an hour early, wash my hair, set it in big hot rollers, pull them out, bend at the waist, flip flip flip and back up again, back and forth to the side, fluff with hands, and go.
Back… Read full post »
The doctor seen rushing to the side of young Neda Agha-Soltan in the famous video of her death is now safely in Britain, and has broken his silence by granting his first interview to the BBC.
Dr. Arash Hejazi, who is trained as a physician but is well… Read full post »
Dr.
Arash Hejazi, right, attending the 2008 Frankfurt Book
Fair.When the graphic video of a young girl dying on the streets of Tehran was first uploaded to the Internet last Saturday, there was no name attached to it. All we knew was the face of a young girl struggling for her last breaths after a sniper's bullet exploded in her… Read full post »
Her name was Neda.
Earlier this afternoon, doing the same thing I've done every day this week, scanning thousands and thousands of tweets coming out of Iran for those I thought needed to be
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Farewell To No Ordinary Friend
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My Code Year, Things Being More Equal Than Others
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