Stories from Jean McGavin

It was spring, 1973. I was 19. My sister and I were visiting Munich. We wanted to take the day trip to Dachau and inquired at the Munich tra...

Earth Day, 1970 April 22, 1970 was the first Earth Day. Festivities and protests were planned across the country, Washington, D.C....

The bus was late. It was my daughter Glynnis’s first day of 6th grade. She had missed the first few days because of a fever so she was ter...

February 26, 1993 My 2 year old daughter and 3 month old son had gone out with a babysitter, Nicole, to find some diversion from our 4 walls...

Blood Orange I had boarded the plane at Dulles with a dreadful cold. My ears had become clogged and painful and I spent a lot of time futile...

Adams Hometown Supermarket, Watertown, CT Add a story; read a story; either way, you gather chips in the game of life. Last night my daughte...

It was spring, 1973. I was 19. My sister and I were visiting Munich. We wanted to take the day trip to Dachau and inquired at the Munich tra...

Carnival, Karneval, Mardi Gras, or Martedi Grasso. Whether you are in Rio, Quebec, Marseille, Binche, Cologne, Dakar, New Orleans, or Sydney...

In the late fifties, before there were cell phones or computers or color TVs, I lived on a lovely cul-de-sac near Washington, D.C., in a nei...