Sometimes I forget where I live. I don’t mean, like, soap-opera-amnesia-style forget. I mean something more along the lines of getting caught up in the day-to-day so much that we forget things sometimes. To quote one of my favorite role models, Ferris Bueller: “Life moves [Read more…]

It seems greedy to say that I wish my grandmother had lived a little longer. After all, she was 95 when she passed in 2007. Many of my friends have had much less time to spend with their grandparents, so I should be grateful for [Read more…]

Three tracks into the Alabama Shakes’ debut album Boys and Girls, I was rolling the windows in my car down to feel summer in the air with a smile on my face. (Yeah, it’s April in Florida, but it feels like summer…and has since February) [Read more…]

I. Love. St. Patrick’s. Day. My name, in case you haven’t noticed, is Shannon O’Neil. This leads me to believe that there is Irish blood flowing through me somewhere, somehow (though my ancestry.com research has yet to yield any family history outside of south Georgia, [Read more…]