SURREY, British Columbia, May 22, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- "One of these days I'm going to pack up and head for the mountains and become a hermit, just you jokers wait and see." A constant threat that Moira used on her growing offspring on the many occasions she sensed they were taking her for granted. Not once did she expect the event to materialize. But before she knew it, she had taken the plunge and gone up to the Canadian Rockies. Moira, almost as an afterthought to a spur-of-the-moment decision , realizes that mountain life is not all it's cracked up to be. The Mountains Eh? Dream On! narrates her amusing life as a single woman on her last gamble at fun and freedom.
After her last dependent child was accepted at a university in Quebec, Moira is once again about to experience the single life. Soon to retire from thirty years in the field of medicine, new horizons beckoned and Moira was bent on 'seizing the day'.
The survivor of a thirty-year marriage that went down in flames four years earlier, Moira is ready to embark on a voyage of self-discovery and experience as much fun as possible while doing so. So while on a casual phone conversation, Tilda, a distant relative, suggests that Moira leave Ontario and head west. "This is a perfect opportunity to do what you want to do and have some fun before it is too late."
"Why not?"
Those two words pondered at a random idea offered by a slightly erratic relative would set Moira off on a journey to discover more than herself -- it would make her realize how much she valued her harried life and how she had been ready to give it all up. For more information, log on to www.Xlibris.com.
About the Author
Palmyra M. Williams was born and resided on the island of Barbados in the West Indies until her graduation from school at eighteen years of age. She immigrated to the United Kingdom to study nursing. On successful completion of that program, she married and gave birth to a son and daughter. After a short stint in the U.S.A. on an exchange nursing program was accomplished, she came to reside in Canada, where she completed her brood with two more sons. While her children were growing up, Palmyra fulfilled her curiosity by engaging in such activities as cake decorating, swimming, springboard diving, and synchronized swimming, first as a student and later as instructor and examiner. She also occupied herself in bricklaying, carpentry, woodcarving, furniture repair and design, and cabinet making. Woodworking is her favorite hobby, as well as floral arrangement and horticulture, ACAD and blueprint reading, and sewing for the home and family. She later turned her attention to writing, poetry, and the completion of the classical music pieces she began thirty years previously. She was an organist and choir director. She attended McMaster University in studies in the Humanities. She also dabbled in the real estate scenario for a short period.
The Mountains Eh? Dream On! * by Palmyra M. Williams
So you thought you wanted to live in the mountains, eh?
Publication Date: July 17, 2001
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