Apr 12, 2014 | A Day In My Life
If you’ve never experienced homecoming in Texas, you’re missing something big. Literally. First, let me say that I’m more of a behind the scenes kind of girl. Even in high school, I made the homecoming dresses for my friends, but didn’t go to the dance myself. My joy...
Apr 11, 2014 | A Day In My Life
The panther is like a leopard, Except it hasn’t been peppered. Should you behold a panther crouch, Prepare to say Ouch. Better yet, if called by a panther, Don’t anther. Ogden Nash thought he was being funny. I don’t. You see, panthers are wild animals,...
Apr 10, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Y’all ever have one of those days that feels like you’re walking around in a nightmare? It didn’t start that way. I woke up this morning with a beautiful woman sleeping next to me (the same one who has been for several months now, which is new and different, but...
Apr 9, 2014 | A Day In My Life
I’ve lived in Frog Ledge almost my whole life, and I can’t remember a time when things have been so upside down. I would say it’s coincidence, but it all started when Stan Connor came to town… I’m Jake McGee, and I run McSwigg’s. It’s the best Irish pub this...
Apr 8, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Some people aren’t familiar with my first name. I’m Boston Irish, although I haven’t lived there for years, and it’s pronounced “Shay-mus”—like the private eye—which I am not. If I weren’t sequestered deep in the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, eight miles from...
Apr 7, 2014 | A Day In My Life
Love in the later years is a wonderful thing. None of that dreadful insecurity or paralyzing worries about not being pretty enough or thin enough. What will your parents think of him? Most important of all: what will your friends think of him? And is he really in love...
