Mazie sits on the swing on the porch of her family home, she is alone but comfortable and happy to be there. Her senses are alive to her surroundings; the clanking of the chain holding the swing, the warm balmy weather, the earthy smells from...

Pushing the River by Barbara Monier is a family drama that highlights many of the difficulties we all face in our busy lives as we try to hold our families together, especially as our children grow up and leave the nest to spread their wings....

In The Reading by Barbara Monier, we meet Esme, an established writer in her early sixties. Her lover Gino has asked her to live with him but she is reluctant to disrupt her carefully constructed cocoon. She subsequently suffers from writer’s block. As she performs...