Tag: Ewok
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Mom’s Final Days – Thoughts from November 20, 2013

(Future note: This was written about my mom’s final days. Her last day alive was on November 20, 2013, so that is the date of this Thoughts paper. Despite the sad subject, there were amusing and surreal happenings going on.) My mom had multiple sclerosis for many years. Near the end of her life, she…
Brian Kirwan
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August 25, 1997 – Thoughts from Life 3

Traveling down the road of life, I see a computer sitting on the side of the road. It’s shiny, new, and smells of megabytes. I pick it up and press one key. On the screen appears a single word. I stare at the word a moment and keep walking, leaving the computer on the side…
Brian Kirwan
1970, 1997, 6th grade, birthday, bully, clown college, complaining, composition, computer, computer screen, CSUSB, English, Ewok, family, high school, humor, lazy, make-out, marriage equality, Milli Vanilli, Mr. Rogers, parties, playing music, schoolyard, Star Wars, teachers, teased, thoughts, time, toys, wife

