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 re...

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

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

I am already getting hungry just thinking about writing this. My parents both grew up in Pennsylvania, in Pennsylvania D...

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

It is Spring 2013. I live in the country. There are country smells here. My own house sits between a horse farm and a ho...

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

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

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