title: Hesitating at the Gate: Reflections on Aging
author:  Ann Tudor 
description: In everything she writes, Ann Tudor probes the events and emotions of her rich life and reveals her scattershot approach to living: she indulges her varied interests as they arise. With a B.A. from DePauw University and an M.A.T. degree from Vanderbilt University, she began work as a teacher of French but found herself profoundly unsuited to the task of teaching seventh grade. Since then, her full- or part-time vocations have included: church organist, copy editor, managing editor, choir member, artist-craftsperson (altered and handmade books, fibre arts), pianist, cellist, hands-on healer, and avid reader. Ann has taught, in addition to French, breadmaking and overtone singing, and she has read her work to enthusiastic audiences. She has written children's books and created audiobooks from her memoirs and stories. Mother of three and grandmother of five, Ann lives in Toronto with her husband.
zlib_text: Elizabeth Fair  
  _The Mingham Air_
  
  >  _“The best thing one can say about the Priory is that it would have made a
  > splendid ruin,” she stated. “If only the Seamarks had left it alone . . .”_
  
    
  
  > Hester Clifford has come to Mingham to recover from pneumonia, at the
  > invitation of her godmother, Cecily Hutton, an eccentric painter with a
  > predilection for ruins. Hester determines to bring order to the Huttons’
  > easygoing lives, not to mention those of the villagers—including elderly
  > Mrs. Hyde-Ridley, attempting to enforce her Edwardian standards of
  > behaviour, Mrs. Merlin, the Rector’s wife, equally determined to share the
  > joys of country dance with an unenthusiastic parish, and Thomas Seamark, a
  > classic example of the wealthy, brooding widower. Amidst conflict,
  > manipulation, matchmaking, and general hilarity, Hester clearly has her work
  > cut out for her.
  
  > Furrowed Middlebrow is delighted to make available, for the first time in
  > over half a century, all six of Elizab