Tag: Jamaica

• Memories of Route 66, Anxieties, and Word Choices – Thoughts from October 12 and 20, 2024

  

  October 12, 2024 I haven’t written a Thoughts paper in a while. Actually, that’s not true. Why am I lying to you? Because I can. I should say I haven’t written anything unplanned. Patti and I took a Route 66 trip that I wrote about, but I didn’t write the entries on the date I…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 14, 2025

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  2024, a picture is worth a thousand words, airports, anxiety, anxious thoughts, arbitrary word choices, awkward, Couples Sans Souci, damaged emotions, dash cam, dash cam footage, easily triggered anxiety, electric bill, emotions, financial crisis, flying in a plane, heat of summer, images lead to memories, Jamaica, knowledge always wins over belief, only flying first class, Patti, Petrified Forest, realizing my error, Route 66 trip, snobbish rule, taking pictures, taking pictures throughout the day, thoughts, Thoughts paper, visual thinking, Wordscapes, wounded emotions, writing

• Explosive Birthday Aftermath – Thoughts from July 2 and 4, 2023

  

  July 2, 2023 As birthdays go, this is one of the most recent ones. That’s right, I’m the big five three today. Because I exhausted all my vacation time in Jamaica, I couldn’t take today off. I’m at work, but it’s not so bad. My place of work is where people come on their vacations.…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 20, 2024

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  2023, awkward place to sleep, battle cry of hate, battles, birthday, cat poo, Christian Americans, explosions, fighting foreigners, fireworks, fireworks around our house, God doesn’t exist, gross things, hading pets, hate, hateful American crowds, hating non-Americans, illegal fireworks, Jamaica, July 4th, learn their lesson, litter box, loud noises, miserable complainer, old cat, paws slipping, poo, poo in the crevices, pyro, pyrotechnic hate rallies, Quest, racist sexist homophobic and hateful people, scaring pets, scaring the cats, sleeping on the printer, social butterfly, the smell of poo, thoughts, Thoughts papers, towel on the printer, violence

• Goodbye Jamaica, Hello Miami Airport – Thoughts from June 21 and 22, 2023

  

  June 21, 2023 Our last day here in Jamaica is here. We got up at 7:00 this morning. Tonight, we have to be in bed by 8:00 pm because we have to wake up at 4:00 am tomorrow. We have to have our luggage outside our room by 5:30 am and be out of our…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 13, 2024

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  2023, airport, another peacock, barely avoid hitting other vehicles, chock-a-doodle-doo, cocky son of a chicken, Couples Resorts, Crackers, creatures of Jamaica, Dial 119, dial 911, dial 999, first-class amenities, flight, flying first-class, Jamaica, LAX, laying flat on a plane, luggage, Miami airport, military clock rooster, Mr. and Mrs. Peacock, naked humans, no tan lines, nude beach, on screen peril, packing bags, parrot, parrot friend, passing vehicles, Patti, police motorcycle, rooster, shuttle ride, sleeping on a plane, spreading feathers, tanning, thoughts, tired, traveling, tried to video, vacation, yellow butterflies

• Jamaican Dreams, Crackers, and Endings – Thoughts from June 19 and 20, 2023

  

  June 19, 2023 As I woke up in Jamaica this morning, I remembered two dreams. They seemed like one long dream, but I realized they were two separate dreams. The best titles for them would be Lazy Zombies and Flying Hamster Friend. I wrote them down so I could eventually develop them as stories. Perhaps…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 11, 2024

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  2023, animal friends, anti-fish, big cage, blind in one eye, Bloody Cesar, Bloody Mary, bored birds, breakfast special, Clamato juice, Crackers, diary, dreams, exercising while on vacation, feeling down, fishy dish, flying hamster, glasses, Jamaica, journal, judging eyes, knowing the servers, last full day of vacation, Mad Max character, Mai Tai, memoirs, mohawk, nude beach, omelet, parrot, partiers, Patti, pool volleyball, red necks, resort photographer, stories, story of our life, swimming, thoughts, Thoughts papers, tomato juice, vacation, Vacation Land, zombies

• Operation Jamaican Vacation: The Anniversary Part – Thoughts from June 13 to 15, 2023

  

  June 13, 2023 Day two of operation Jamaican vacation, but it feels like day one. We were too tired to vacation yesterday. I had a dream where I was petting a seal. This was probably from me missing Luna laying on top of me and our daily rubbing exercise. I rub her and she tries…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 4, 2024

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  2023, anniversary, annoying behavior, breakfast, competition, Competition ruins everything, crabs, daily rubbings, drinking beer, human cat dad, humpapa, Jamaica, Jamaican vacation, long pants or shorts, male peacock, missing the cats, music trivia, New Orleans, operation Jamaican vacation, Patti, Patti and Brian, peachicks, peacock kids, peacock mom, peahen, pool volleyball, Queen, Queen songs, quiting smoking, repeaters dinner, school of fish, secluded beach, shallow ocean by the beach, smoking, Southerners, sweating, sweating is my hobby, sweating profusely, swimming, thoughts, Thoughts paper, translucent skin, trash talk, Vacation Destination, vacations without smoking, veggie bar, wedding song, What a Wonderful World

• Jamaica, Here We Come – Thoughts from June 11 and 12, 2023

  

  June 11, 2023 Here we sit in the LAX airport. It’s about 9:30 pm and our flight is at about 11:30 pm. Who is this “we” you speak of? This might be your question if this is your first ever Thoughts paper you’ve read from this Brian guy. Brian is one of the we and…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 30, 2024

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  2023, airport, away from our bags, Beatrix, being tired, boarding groups, boarding the plane, Brian, carry-on, cats, cats are part of my routine, choking on salt, Couples Resorts, Facebook, flight, French fries, fur on our stuff, gaining vacation weight, getting nervous, Italian hot sauce, Jamaica, laptops, LAX airport, Luna, Miami airport, missing my bed, missing the cats, my weight, packing, Patti, Quest, racism sexism and religious fundamentalism, resort restaurants, resorts, routine, Scout, sleeping on planes, Starbucks, suitcases, talking cat, the American South, thoughts, Thoughts paper, too much salt, vacation, vacation meal, vegan and vegerarian options, Willow

• Vacation PTSD and Loud Nerds – Thoughts from May 14 and 15, 2023

  

  May 14, 2023 I’m tired and cranky. It’s Mother’s Day, but that’s not why I’m cranky. Patti’s mom and my mom are no longer alive. It’s my life that’s feeling more and more out of control. Patti makes decisions for me, my work makes decisions, and time doesn’t allow me to make more than a…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 21, 2024

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  2023, acknowledge another human being, anniversary, cayenne pepper, dripping sweat, eating lunch, I told you that, ignoring other people, Jamaica, knocking my chair over, lack of decision making, life out of control, living without a say in our lives, loud conversation on phone, loud noise, lunch, lunch at night, making decisions, Mother's Day, my part in the plan, mysterious plans, Patti, plans, podcast, spicy meal, staring at their phones, steamed vegetables, sweating, talking on speaker phone, thoughts, tired and cranky, vacation, vacation PTSD, vacation time, vegetable lunch, visioning a plan is easy, young and nerdy

• Jamaica – Thoughts from February 19, 2019

  

  I’m in Jamaica on vacation. Specifically, I’m up at 4:00 AM on the balcony of our room eating nuts because I didn’t have anything to eat before I went to bed. At home, I have beans and rice before I go to bed and that keeps me full all night. On vacation, we eat and…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 17, 2023

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  2019, aggression, all-male team, arbitrary reasons, bad listeners, beans and rice, beers in hand, can’t sleep, competition, Competition ruins everything, Couples Resorts, drinking, eating nuts, entertainment, friends, future note, happiness, hungry, ignored me, Jamaica, married life, men, men versus women, our anniversary, play a game, story ideas, swim-up bar, team, team sports, thoughts, trauma, trivia, unsalted nuts, vacation, vulnerabilities, War Games, winning, women

• 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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  2010, 2011, 2023, ailments, allergic, animation, anniversary, art form, behind-the-scenes, blog, blog posts, Brian Explains Life, choice, couch potato, eat less, eat right, eating, eating crap, editing, evolution, food, grammar, how you feel, human, humor, hunger pains, illnesses, Jamaica, June, living to 100, longevity, marathons, meaning, music, new articles, nutrition, organized, Patti, personal statement, quenched, quickly, screw up, sluggish, social event, status symbol, stomach pain, strawberries, therapy, thoughts, Thoughts papers, vacation, writing