Stories from Jean McGavin

I spent most of my Virginia summer days at the Country Club. I went to swim team practice in the morning. I spent the rest of the day, until...

September 12, 2013 Today, at a ceremony, in Waterbury, CT. a former slave by the name of Fortune will be remembered and buried. After Fortun...

One summer when my son was about 14, he had a couple of friends staying with us from overseas - Jason from Hong Kong and Basile from Paris. ...

I am already getting hungry just thinking about writing this. My parents both grew up in Pennsylvania, in Pennsylvania Dutch country. The lo...

Royals Versus Mets 2015 …. watching the world series. First game. I know, it’s crazy. I never watch sports. But I love the World Series....

It is Spring 2013. I live in the country. There are country smells here. My own house sits between a horse farm and a house with 5 or 6 dair...

A love letter to my father, Thomas A. McGavin, 1919-2008, on the day of the McGavin Family Reunion in Seaforth, Ontario, August 30, 2009. My...

I have four brothers. In 1968 that was a desperate situation. The Viet Nam War was raging and the draft was our greatest fear. Two of my bro...

Debutante circa 1970 Girls bake cookies, boys build furniture. That was the way of things in my home growing up. That also meant that girls ...