Tag: research

• Cinco de Mayo, Retirement, and Seeing Cubs – Thoughts from May 5 and 11, 2024

  

  May 5, 2024 As I mentioned yesterday, today is Cinco de Mayo. Someone joked that no one knows what it’s about. I could use my research I did yesterday to inform him that everyone knows it’s about the victory of Mexico over France in 1862. My heart would grow three times larger if he thought…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 4, 2025

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  1862, 2024, additional destinations, babies, baby boy, cats, Cinco de Mayo, clever, cold water, disgusted by fast food, enjoying vacuuming, extra errands, falling, freaking out the cats, humor, just watching me, knowing stuff, knowledge off the top of my head, nephew, non-refrigerated water, not eating, Patti, pizza eating, research, retirement, retiring, roasting people, sleeping baby, The Lion King, thoughts, Thoughts paper, tiger cubs, tiger documentary, tigers, tigers hunt kill and eat, trimming bushes, tv shows, vacuuming, Walmart, watch tv, workshopping ideas, writing, writing in retirement card

• Fantasy, Reality, and the Unreal – Thoughts from July 12 and 15, 2023

  

  July 12, 2023 Listen up, people. I’ve got something to say. Just kidding. If I had something to say, I would just say it. I don’t like it when people introduce what they’re going to say. Patti does this quite often. She says, “I’m going to tell you something, but you have to promise not…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 27, 2024

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  2023, bankruptcy, being rich, blame, blind cat, California, cat, dragons, evil, evil doesn’t exist, Fablehaven, fairies, fantasy creatures, fantasy series, flea medication, I’m going to tell you something, impersonating men, impression of men, living in New York, making decisions, man voice, modern fantasy, my Friday, mythological stories, no heroes or villains, Nora Ephron books, parents, Patti, problems with pooing, Quest, research, rich people problems, snob hill, stress, tears, thoughts, Thoughts papers, tired of crying, trauma, unicorns, water heater leakage, weather, works of fiction, yelling

• Toys and Charlie Manson – Thoughts from August 7 to 9, 2022

  

  August 7, 2022 Today’s Thoughts paper is brought to you by sleep. I’m looking forward to getting some tonight. I’ve dropped a lot of things today. Being tired will do that to you. I’m too tired to have many thoughts. I promise to have more tomorrow. August 8, 2022 I was going to work today…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 5, 2023

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  2022, action figures, anxiety, anxiety provoking, as a kid, Charles Manson, Charlie, Charlie Manson, daughter, driving down the street and back, dropping things, faded words, freeway, granddaughter, Harley Davison motorcycle, hateful words, living with mom, local Charlie, Manson died, middle-aged man, mobile home, multiple toys, no job, no one would employ him, one toy, open the box, out-of-control hair, parents took me to Toys R Us, regret, research, riding a bike, sad future, screaming obscenities, selling drugs, short motorcycle rides, sleep, stuffed animals, thoughts, Thoughts paper, tired, too tired, tough decisions, toys, Toys R Us, Toys R Us truck, urging his suicide, video games, wrong decision