Sweet remedy

by Linda Ashour

Six months after breaking up with Tom, her husband of eighteen years, Polly Harrison is still trying to put her life in order. Her two smart-alecky kids are driving her to distraction, and she has to work as an office temp just to make ends meet. In her spare moments, she scribbles away at country music lyrics and dreams of a career in Nashville. And all the while, she still obsesses over what Tom is doing, even to the point of carrying on elaborate fantasy conversations with the "other woman.". But just when Polly thinks she's finally ready for social life as a newly single woman, her eighty-two-year-old grandmother drops in for a visit - and then decides to stay, disrupting the whole household. Something even more surprising is waiting right outside Polly's front door, although it's not quite what she thought she was hoping for.... Banished from the home they fashioned together, Tom is actually more present than he ever was before. Guilt and renewed faith have brought him back to the