After a bit of a dry spell, I had a dream visit from an old family friend last night.
June and Alfred were friends with my mother and father. I remember many evenings spent at their home on a dirt road in Frankfort. We kids played outside, summer and winter. We played hide and seek in summer and sledded by moonlight in winter. Crushing tin cans, by stepping on them, we clomped up and down the hill pretending to be horses.
Mom and Dad played cards with June and Al. June made glazed donuts and Dad and Al did a lot of laughing. Great times.
Last night, June visited me in my ‘sleep,’ and we walked up and down her road, where she once lived in Frankfort.
I believe that we visited her road in her current dimension because while it was the same in many respects as the road in Frankfort, it was also different in some aspects. Several houses were as they are today. However, there were also houses which I have never known to be on that road.
We walked past the lot where my great grandparents once lived. The house burned back in the 1960s I believe. But you could still recognize the depression where the driveway had been.
June’s inlaws lived across the meadow. The house still stands in good repair.
It was a pleasant, sentimental walk.
Most of all, it was heartwarming to walk with a lady I’ve always loved. I feel privileged that she chose to come to visit with me.
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As a toddler, Sue Baumgardner made up stories for herself looking at books she could not read and later spun tales for her younger sisters. After she had her own children, she told them tales and eventually wove a new pattern into the fabric of their lives. As the three sat together, one would begin with a story idea of her own. She spoke perhaps a paragraph or two or three, then pointed to the next who would take up the thread and continue with her own evolution of the story line passed to her, until she pointed to the next. The third person wove her own ideas into the story progression. After the three each had a turn, anyone could end the story, in their turn, whenever it felt complete to them.
After her children were adults, Sue studied writing, first poetry and then prose. After six semesters in adult education, she was thoroughly hooked on the story art form. Sue continued with dozens of classes, seminars and writing retreats. She studied writing and publishing under the likes of James Patterson, Peter Behrens, and Mark Dawson.
As a contributor to the Discover Maine Magazine, Sue received her first check for her prose.
Her poetry has been published in The Aurorian.
She has six of her paperbacks along with four ebooks published. They include fiction and nonfiction for adults and fiction for Middle Readers.
Her very first publishing though began with Greeting Card Universe, where Sue’s greeting cards with verse are sold across the world.
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