Stories from Jean McGavin

Check Point Charlie, mine fields, machine guns, Berlin Wall, On the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall - November 9, 1989 I cro...

When I was a child I remember seeing saccharine in the grocery stores and being told that there were people who could not eat sugar. I was t...

An unprecedented 8.9 earthquake has slammed the sea off the coast of Japan and a tsunami has torn into Japan and spread out across the Pacif...

When we were small, in the fifties in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., Halloween was a magical affair. My mother did not allow us t...

I don’t remember my first day of school in Virginia. I attended a kindergarten in a church, Mt. Olivet. I don’t think there were kinderg...

We had tickets to Barack Obama’s 2013 inauguration. We travelled from Connecticut for the event. We would have driven from Alaska. This wa...

I went to a wonderful college in upstate New York. It was the sister school to a very prestigious men’s liberal arts college. It only surv...

I was a big fan of Winter Study at Kirkland. I transferred to Kirkland after my freshman year so I was not able to enjoy all 4 years of Wint...

The following story is told with not a small amount of shame. I ask the forgiveness of the reader for the ignorance of my long past youth.�...