This image is the cover for the book Glimpses: Sundown Manor

Glimpses: Sundown Manor

A retirement home is a unique society composed of a mixed bag of, usually elderly, human beings, who may, or may not, have chosen to live together under the same roof, and, many of whom, if they had their druthers, would not have chosen to ever be in such a place at all.

In North America, where aging is generally viewed as a deterioration of beauty, rather than as an accumulation of wisdom, they often consider this all rather a raw deal.

Glimpses: Sundown Manor gives you a “glimpse” into the lives of some of these people, and provides a light-hearted peek at how it is possible for such a diverse group of personalities to gradually become a “family”.


Linda van Omme

Linda van Omme (MacLeod) grew up on a farm on Prince Edward Island, with two sisters, great parents, a ‘rootin’-tootin’’ grandmother, and surrounded by a whole bunch of other relatives.


She trained in Ontario, and worked as an Occupational Therapist, in retirement homes, hospitals, and in the community, for 42 years, all across Canada, with the “world population” who end up living in our wonderful country.


She has three dear daughters; three dear sons-in-law; and four (almost five) sweet and almost-perfect grandchildren. Her husband, also a ‘dear’, is a now-retired ‘Rev’.

Austin Macauley Publishers