Jean McGavin Stories

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was 1965, I was 11 or 12. I had 2 older brothers who had saved a lot of money delivering papers a . . .

I went to a wonderful college in upstate New York. It was the sister school to a very prestigious me . . .

I was a big fan of Winter Study at Kirkland. I transferred to Kirkland after my freshman year so I w . . .

Carnival, Karneval, Mardi Gras, or Martedi Grasso. Whether you are in Rio, Quebec, Marseille, Binche . . .

In the late fifties, before there were cell phones or computers or color TVs, I lived on a lovely cu . . .