Author: Brian Kirwan
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Seeking Normal – Thoughts from January 16 and April 6, 2013
January 16, 2013 Hello from the future! That statement is going to sound damn silly when I read back on this in 2020, when I’ll be 50. Now I said I’ll be 50! Can I just deny the future? Of course, I can, but when is the last time I listened to myself? I told…
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Missing a Cat Named Slash – Thoughts from November 16, 2011
(Future note: The following are the words I wrote for the Three Girl Cats blog I started for Slash, Blaze, and Quest. They were born on June 3rd, 2009, and she died November 15, 2011. It was the final entry for the blog and my final words about Slash.) Unfortunately, this is the last posting…
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Brian Explains Television – Thoughts from January 7, 2011
Brian Explains: Television The subject of my article this week is something near and dear to my heart. To this day, it is the friend who helps me wake me up in the morning and the companion that puts me to bed at night. It comforts me when I am sick and even helps me…
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Brian Explains New Year’s Resolutions – Thoughts from December 31, 2010
Brian Explains: New Year’s Resolutions New Year’s resolutions come just once a year, but they can be broken all year long. New Year’s resolutions were never something I did. I would sometimes jokingly mention I was going to resolve to quit doing something or start doing something. I was never seriously intending to keep the…
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Brian Explains Toys – Thoughts from December 25, 2010
Brian Explains: Toys This Christmas time, I thought I would talk about an important issue we must examine this time of year. It is an issue affecting us all when we reach a certain age. Are we children, teenagers, young adults, or the dreaded adult? We are walking around thinking fun-filled, happy toy thoughts and…
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Brian Explains Men and Women – Thoughts from December 17, 2010
Brian Explains: Men and Women Men and women are the similar in more ways than they are different. We are both humans, have feet and hands in the same general area, and have heads that are tied to our bodies with skin string. We are so similar that you cannot tell which category some people…
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Brian Explains Hoarding – Thoughts from December 10, 2010
Brian Explains: Hoarding If you haven’t seen any of the shows about hoarding, you owe it to yourself to watch one. The basic premise of every show is that the person who the show is about cannot let go of things. “Things” include both physical and emotional things. It is the emotional baggage that compels…
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Brian Explains OCD – Thoughts from December 3, 2010
Brian Explains: OCD Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is defined by Merriam-Webster as a “psychoneurotic disorder in which the patient is beset with obsessions or compulsions or both and suffers extreme anxiety or depression through failure to think the obsessive thoughts or perform the compelling acts.” I don’t mean to brag, but I have several forms of…
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Brian Explains Planned Procrastination – Thoughts from November 26, 2010
Brian Explains: Planned Procrastination The main philosophy of planned procrastination is why do today what you can plan to do tomorrow? I believe I started the beginnings of this philosophy in high school, but it truly blossomed in College. I have a degree in English Composition that I am putting to great use by writing…
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Brian Explains Being Macho – Thoughts from November 12, 2010
Brian Explains: Being Macho Soap operas are the down-fall of women. I’m not saying that men don’t watch them, but most men find the melodramatic events in soap operas a tad too emotional to take. This is not a description of this man. I cry all the time. Gossip is one of my favorite hobbies,…
