Barb McIntyre

The average age of the people living in the Morning Glory condominium is sixty-two. Together in the well-used recreation room, watching movies, playing cards, holding an art show, or a wake, these seniors are, finally, 'really' living. Mary is busy with her daughter and pregnant granddaughter, while Alice desperately wants more time with her family. Phil and Helen's affair is discovered, Paul and Sandra agree to become friends with benefits and Lise...

These short stories are written from varying perspectives, and often based on average, everyday events.

When a living being mysteriously begins to communicate with a thinking, or what we sometimes refer to as a departed soul, many of their beliefs are debunked. The accidental visitor discovers that the dead still have to work and that their job is to help the living. They also learn that good is rewarded and evil punished, but that the definitions of good and evil are not exactly what they have been taught, and that contact with friends and loved ones,...

This book spans 30-plus years and tells the stories of four generations of women. It focuses on relationships; how they begin, what makes them last, and how they can cause both joy and sadness. It's about love, friendship, fidelity, honesty, and keeping secrets. Adultery has touched Sandra's life, as well as the lives of her grandmother, mother, sister, daughter, and a close friend. One is not aware of it, and one has been deeply affected by it....

Despite a strong attraction, Greg and Fiona spend two years apart because of two wrong assumptions on Greg's part. During those two years, Greg renovates and moves into his grandmother's house, acquires a dog, becomes a Big Brother to six-year-old Tyler, and then adopts the boy after his mother dies. Fiona takes a sabbatical, sublets her apartment, moves in with her mother, and completes her Ph.D. Both Fiona and Greg try dating others without success...

Three couples. Three divorces. Six new lives. Viola's husband has filed for a divorce because he has finally accepted the fact that his need for travel and adventure is stronger than his love for her. Jason and Annabelle, his next-door neighbour, have filed their divorce applications because they found out that their spouses were having an affair. While recovering from the shock and adjusting to their new lives, everyone involved will make surprising...

After attending four funerals in as many months, Polly is thinking about her own death. How will it happen? How much longer does she have? Polly doesn't believe that there's an afterlife. She's not afraid of being dead. But she is afraid of suffering before she gets there. Will she be lucky, like her grandfather, and have a quick and painless death? Or will her death be prolonged and painful, like her sister Emily's had been? After reassuring herself...