Thoughts from Life – Brian Kirwan has thoughts, and these are them.

Thoughts from Life

Route 66, Tepee Hotels, and Squirrel Puppets – Thoughts from September 17, 2024

Patti and I woke up in the tepee hotel early in the morning. Taking a shower in the oddly shaped shower was as weird as showering in a tepee can be. All I can say about it and the toilet is they worked. It’s good to do so we can say we did it, but…

Brian Kirwan

August 26, 2025

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2024, ancient animals, being chastised, changing time zone, chicken-fried chicken, cornbread, Crackle Barrel, Crystal Forest, dinosaurs, donkey and squirrel sidekicks, donkey rubber duck, finger puppet squirrel, heavy winds, liking squirrels, local diner, losing room key, magical broom, Newspaper Rock, Oatman, oddly shapped shower, Painted Desert Visitor Center, panoramic view of the landscape, Patti, Petrified Forest National Park, petrified trees, picture of a cat, Rainbow Forest Museum, restrooms, Roomba, Roswell New Mexico, Route 66, sidekick photo friend, small towns, staying in a historic place, tepee hotel, thoughts, travelers, vacation breakfast, visitor center
Route 66, Hotels, and Donkeys – Thoughts from September 15 and 16, 2024

September 15, 2024 Today is not only Patti’s birthday, but it is the beginning of our Route 66 trip. We’re driving to various locations in Arizona and New Mexico. After we hit Roswell, we head back to California. We finished packing last night. I’m not sure I have enough clothes for the return trip, but…

Brian Kirwan

August 19, 2025

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2024, American diet, Arizona, birthday, Brooklyn 99, California, complimentary breakfast, donkey food, donkey-related merchandise, donkeys by name, earplugs, eating out of your hand, eye mask, free-roaming donkeys, gas prices, giant guitar, Glenn Frey, hand sanitizer, Holbrook, homemade hummus, Lake Havasu, loud air conditioner, Netflix, New Mexico, normal breakfast, Oatman Arizona, old western town, on the corner, Patti, podcasts, pushy donkeys, regular metal key, Roswell, Route 66, Route 66 memorabilia, Route 66 trip, small hotel room, Take It Easy by the Eagles, taking pictures, tepee-shaped hotel, thoughts, TV volume, vacation breakfast, Winslow Arizona, YouTube
Fires, Professor Sprout, and the NME Charts – Thoughts from September 7 and 8, 2024

September 7, 2024 There are flames in the hills near our house. Only a freeway separates our house from the evacuation area. Patti is home and freaking out. She can still see the flames from our house. My sixth-grade teacher showed a picture from his front yard of the smoke billowing up as if from…

Brian Kirwan

August 12, 2025

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2020, 2023, 2024, 83 years old, A-holes on the freeway, artsy songs, audiobooks, being a lesbian, being Jewish, British artists, distraction, documentary, Duran Duran, evacuation area, expectations of the world, expecting each day to be the same, fear of thunder, few filters, fires, Harry Potter, liberally opinionated, living alone, magazine from the UK, Miriam Gargolyes, negative or positive opinions, new music, New Musical Express, NME charts, no belief in God, Patti, Pixies, problems to solve, Professor Spout, radio listening, rare events, refusing to leave, seeing flames from our house, Simon Le Bon, sing along with songs, smoke billowing up, songs in stereo, swearing, thoughts, throat problems, thunderstorms, top 100 albums of all time, Velvet Underground
Project Families, Automatic Urinals, and Self-Diagnosed Autism – Thoughts from September 1, 2024

Here we are at the beginning of Patti’s birthday month. I’m still waiting on an itinerary of our Route 66 trip. Does this make me nervous? Of course it does. Patti is very good at keeping me in the dark about specifics. Projects we do together always winds up with me trying to find out…

Brian Kirwan

August 5, 2025

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2024, anxiety, authentic form of communication, autism, autism spectrum, autistic traits, automatic toilets, automatic urinal, behaviors of autism, birthday month, covering the sensor, depression, doing projects, easily distracted, exact sequence, going to concerts, happier being myself, hiding who I am, lack of control in life, learning to sew, looking people in the eye, loud noises, manual button, masking, mental health, official diagnosis, Patti, problems with crowds, removing myself, Route 66 trip, self-diagnosed autism, sensory issues, sensory overload, special allowances, thoughts, water keeps running, working with wood
Creativity and Shyness – Thoughts from August 19 and 31, 2024

August 19, 2024 I’ve talked with several people about my throat. I told them about the polyp on my vocal cords. The singer I talked to said she has had them on her vocal cords. She had them removed with surgery. A former nurse said trying the dietary changes made sense before going right for…

Brian Kirwan

July 29, 2025

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2024, animations, autism, autobiographies, balsa wood, being gay, being shy, building things, creating candles, creating crap, creating songs, creative pursuits, creative skills, depression, dietary changes, drawings, encouraging environment, encouraging parents, encouraging people, experimental ideas, hippies, introduced myself, LGBTQ, musical creations, new person at work, new situations, painting ceramics, polyp on my vocal cord, shyness bubble, signs of autism, singing, singing too much, surgery, thinking is my favorite hobby, thoughts, Thoughts paper, throat problems, vocal cords, Wordscapes, Wordscapes tournament, writing, writings