Tag: editing

• Non-Smokers, Feminist Punks, and Cassette Recorders – Thoughts from May 28, 2024

  

  Patti is still a non-smoker, but she said she found it rough recently, so she bought a week’s worth of nicotine patches. I have mixed feelings about it. You would think the time to use them would be weaning yourself off the cigarettes. She has been smoke free for weeks now. The physical effects of…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 25, 2025

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• Not Our Bunny or Our Holidays – Thoughts from October 21 and 22, 2023

  

  October 21, 2023 It’s time to talk about the bunny in our yard. I first saw him when I was mowing our lawn. I walked to our backyard, and I saw something hop away. Convinced that it was a hopping cat, I didn’t think too much of it. Patti asked me to look at something…

  Brian Kirwan

  September 17, 2024

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• Brian Explains Screwing Up and Food – Thoughts from October 1, 2010

  

  Future note: This is the third Brian Explains Life blog article I am including as part of the Thoughts from Life blog, but it should have been the first. I thought it was strange that the introduction to the blog was from 2010, but the articles were from 2011. To make up for this screw…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 27, 2023

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