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…]

I think I had a dream last night about jumping over sewer pipes and banging my head against floating brick blocks looking for coins. It’s a good thing I love me some Super Mario or I’d be reaching a breaking point with the world’s most [Read more…]