Tag: science

• Route 66, Historic Stops, and Roadkill Burgers – Thoughts from September 20, 2024

  

  Patti and I woke up in the Jack Oakie room of the El Rancho hotel in Gallop, New Mexico. We got a late checkout, so we didn’t have to be out until noon. We took showers in the awkward bathroom and collected our luggage, large snack bag, cooler, and other assorted items back into the…

  Brian Kirwan

  September 23, 2025

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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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