At times provocatively cheeky, all time honest and discerning, Sheila Ballantyne chronicles the ordinary silliness of life while addressing the advanced questions. Is there a way to balance passion and commitment? How do we know that we're living the lives we're destined to live? How do we know that we're happy?

In these stories we observe 1. A son worries over choosing a nursing home for his mother. 2. A wife and mother suffer as she tries to adjust and make sense of her husband's seriously disabling kidney disease. 3. A daughter finally makes a decision what to do with the ashes of her dead father. If you are a middle class American woman then you will spot yourself on every page.

Life on Earth by Sheila Ballantyne
Publish by Simon & Schuster on October 2007
Suggested retail price of $13.95
The 10 digit ISBN is 1416583424 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9781416583424.