Tag: junior high

• 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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• Me, Casual Conversations, and My Birth Certificate – Thoughts from January 21 and 27, 2024

  

  January 21, 2024 As someone was talking about watching a football game and getting riled up, I had an existential crisis as I listened. I felt an urge to point out how I could never have a conversation about such a reprehensible sport. I held my tongue, but it made me wonder if I’m ever…

  Brian Kirwan

  November 26, 2024

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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

  August 10, 2023

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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…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 25, 2023

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• November 3, 1992 – Journal Assignment 1

  

  This journal entry comes from a Psychology 115 class I had in college. I mixed it in with my Thoughts papers because it represents my only written thoughts from 1992. Each week, we were asked to write about specific aspects of our lives. For that reason, this is probably my most organized series of thoughts.…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 8, 2022

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