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Carmen

2:55 a.m. That's what time Carmen left us this morning. I'm struck by the fact that the most outspoken--and softspoken--of our group are now gone. None of us will forget how, when the circle came...

Feb 13, 2013 Like

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Inauguration ~ The Gift Outright

When asked what his favorite memory was of the JFK inauguration, my husband would faithfully respond, "Hearing Frost." For it was on that January morning in Washington something of consequence,...

Jan 21, 2013 Like

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Pomegranate

It was the first thing I never had First since Eve Not an apple at all really That thing they held in the bleachers in school During cold football games in Wyoming Maybe a nickel then, maybe...

Jan 23, 2013 Like

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Deadwood

I don't know who would play him in a film version. Anthony Hopkins, maybe. Clint Eastwood. At the front of that classroom was a lectern, with a thesaurus tucked inside. It was the first place I...

Jan 18, 2013 Like

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Our Highest Selves

"Even in our grief we will be resolute. . ." It was hard not to be moved watching the ceremony this afternoon at Andrews Air Force Base as the remains of the four fallen U.S. State Department...

Sep 14, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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Let Me Talk About Your Prophet

I grew up in the desert, the daughter of a fundamentalist religion. Our prophet was revered, and his memory considered sacred. An interesting juxtaposition occurred on the planet last night. Just a...

Sep 13, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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Incognito in Istanbul

It was a day like any other, except that it began a story. It was a day like any other, except that it set the world on its side. It was a day like any other, until time stopped. This was our day....

Sep 11, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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Being Bill Clinton

It was on a trip through St. Louis nearly twenty years ago that I first appreciated Bill Clinton was a force of nature. I was newly married, and Bill Clinton was also on a honeymoon of sorts--in...

Sep 6, 2012 Like

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The Portrait

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.” • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince I should let the artist tell the story, for it is really the artist's story to...

Aug 9, 2012 Like

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Olympic Memories

The 2002 Winter Olympic cauldron at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City. I remember it clearly, and with great affection . . . the Opening Ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake...

Jul 27, 2012 Like

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The Ancestor Quilt

I stood sentinel one summer Sunday afternoon in a graveyard in rural Centre County, Pennsylvania, surrounded by traditional Amish farms. Suddenly a sea of blue dresses, black pants and white shirts...

Jun 30, 2012 Like

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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Two days before my winter migration to Florida last November, an unexpected visitor arrived in our neighborhood in central Wisconsin--a six foot black bear. Although we live very much in town, and...

Jun 29, 2012 Like

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Roberts and the Surprise of Judicial Temperament

Within minutes of the Supreme Courts decision this morning upholding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), voices on both ends of the political spectrum were responding to what seemed to be a surprise...

Jun 28, 2012 Like

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Last Dinner On the Titanic

April 1992, aboard the Royal Princess New York to Southampton. Exactly twenty years ago, April 15, 1992, I was aboard a ship making its way in the North Atlantic. At 10:30 that night, on the...

Apr 15, 2012 Like

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One More Trip Around the Sun

A friend, Kirsten, in China said it best this morning, on a Facebook status update: "Im going to carpe the hell out of this diem." Its a gravy day, to be sure. A bonus. That day that tags onto...

Feb 29, 2012 Like

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Look at This Face

It occurred to me when I looked at myself in the mirror this morning that I would never see myself the same way again. My perspective is about to be forever altered. I remember exactly when it...

Feb 9, 2012 Like

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The Good Year

"What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?" ~ from The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats It was universally acknowledged that it had been a good year....

Dec 31, 2011 Like

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Christmas, Party of One

Its hard to say when my husband stopped liking Christmas. It isnt that he hated it, exactly. On a certain level he loved it, the O Holy Night part of it, but like my father he was at an uncertain...

Dec 27, 2011 Like

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Christmas Greetings

To friends and loved ones near and far, good friends on Open Salon, all the best at the holidays and always. The photo is one taken of us on the beach at 505 Front Street, Lahaina, Maui, a few...

Dec 24, 2011 Like

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Whats In a (First) Name?

Maybe its just me, but Im not sure I want a president whose first name is Newt. For that matter, Im not sure I want a president whose name is Mitt or Rick. Conjuring up images of small amphibious...

Dec 12, 2011 Like

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The Gun

Jo Anne Worley of Laugh-In once said that she dreamt about the secrets of the universe, and quickly scribbled them onto a piece of paper at her bedside. The next morning, she awoke and read the...

Nov 10, 2011 Like

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First, Do No Harm

I still remember where I was that brisk November morning when I got the call, on my way into a Minnesota hospital where my husband was a patient. The nurse on the other end sounded young, and...

Nov 7, 2011 Like

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Dear Folks

Just a few months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, a nineteen-year-old student at St. Marys College in Winona, Minnesota, was writing letters home to his parents in Chicago anticipating...

Nov 2, 2011 Like

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epitaph

{EAV_BLOG_VER:659eb358062b47a9} i never wrote your epitaph, but if i did id say you liked hermes ties and hot dogs, linen handkerchiefs and bikini briefs, the opera, paris, oysters on the...

Oct 12, 2011 Like

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Rest In Peace, Steve Jobs

The breaking news, confirmed by Apple, that Steve Jobs has lost his seven-plus year battle with cancer is indeed sad. He was a genius, a visionary, and changed the world. May he rest in peace....

Oct 6, 2011 Like

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All In Good Time

People have been asking with increasing regularity recently when I plan to head south. Its a little like asking Mary Poppins when she plans to move on to the next family. When the wind changes. Im...

Oct 3, 2011 Like

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Something Wicked This Way Comes

The people along the sand All turn and look one way. They turn their back on the land. They look at the sea all day. As long as it takes to pass A ship keeps raising its hull; The wetter ground...

Sep 10, 2011 Like

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On the Seeds-ke-Dee

I was in third grade or thereabouts when the U.S. Government decided to flood the Green River valley. We called it the Seeds-ke-Dee, like the trappers and traders before us, explorers and Native...

Aug 27, 2011 Like

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Life Before Apple

Our collective 21st century consciousness is bookended by an apple--one in Eden, another in Cupertino. I dreamt last night of Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett in the back seat of an old convertible...

Aug 26, 2011 Like

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Cowboy Up

Something there is about going home, sagebrush and barbed wire, whether thirty years have passed or three, the mountains always in your blood, your collective memory, where wild mustangs run free....

Aug 23, 2011 Like

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Kathy Riordan's Open Salon Blog

Carmen

Inauguration ~ The Gift Outright

Pomegranate

Deadwood

Our Highest Selves

Let Me Talk About Your Prophet

Incognito in Istanbul

Being Bill Clinton

The Portrait

Olympic Memories

The Ancestor Quilt

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Roberts and the Surprise of Judicial Temperament

Last Dinner On the Titanic

One More Trip Around the Sun

Look at This Face

The Good Year

Christmas, Party of One

Christmas Greetings

Whats In a (First) Name?

The Gun

First, Do No Harm

Dear Folks

epitaph

Rest In Peace, Steve Jobs

All In Good Time

Something Wicked This Way Comes

On the Seeds-ke-Dee

Life Before Apple

Cowboy Up

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