As I walked into Mom’s room, she greeted me with a happy face, “Nan came and visited with me this morning.”
“That’s wonderful, Mom. Did she stay long?”
We quickly moved on to other matters of the day. Mom’s eyes lit up seeing I had brought her some macaroni and cheese. She was more than ready for lunch. As I spooned it into her mouth, she looked at me and said, “I thought Nan died.”
“That’s right; she did, Mom.”
“You lied to me!” She spat at me.
“No, Mom. I didn’t lie to you.”
“You told me she came to visit me this morning.”
“Mom, you told me that she came to visit. And I believed you. You know I believe the spirits from the other side can come visit us. You and I have talked about it before. I do believe you that she came and visited you this morning.”
Mom lost her steam at that point. She had no more desire for her food or for figuring out my grandmother’s visit.
I’m sure that she was confused as she found herself in and out of this dimension and the next. My mother did not have a habit of talking with the dead like I do, so it must have been especially confusing for her.
For me, it was a red flag. Mom was passing from this dimension to the next. She would soon take her last breath.
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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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