To Hell - and back

Sunday, April 26, 2026

Thoughts on Mother's Day

Mother’s Day 2026 will be celebrated on May 10. I was reminded this morning how significant the day is when I watched on old video this ...

Saturday, April 18, 2026

The tragedy of the American education system

American schools generally led the world in educational attainment, particularly in high school completion rates, from the early 1900s...

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About Me

Tom Brennan: Flagstaff, AZ, United States; I sold cars for The Autobarn of Evanston from February of 2005 until my retirement in July of 2011. Immediately prior to that, I was a college level English instructor in Guangzhou, China. Being Irish, I have long felt a compulsion to put down my thoughts on paper. After one of my customers published a few of my stories on HER blog site (Dwana), I eventually figured out how to publish stories on my own site. The first story (To Hell and back - on a bicycle) appeared on March 4,2009. The inspiration for the title is a man named Clayton Klein, an elderly Michigan man who walks from Paradise (Michigan) to Hell (Michigan) every year (a distance of 420 miles) to raise money for charity. His story, as well the bicycle ride that my daughter and I undertook in the summer of 2007, provided the starting point for what became the site titled tohell-and back.

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