Knowing that I like doing the Jumbles in the daily newspaper, my sister brought a book of Jumbles to me last night.
As I slept last night, my mother (who passed over in 2016) came to visit my sister and I. The two of us were busy in the kitchen.
Mom headed for the kitchen table to sit down. She spotted the new Jumbles book and picked it up and took it to her place at the table. She picked up a pen, opened the book and began solving the first jumble of letters.
I walked over to her, put my hand on her shoulder and said, “Mimi bought that for me tonight. But I really don’t have the time for those. So you can have it, Mom.”
Well pleased, as an old Jumbles fan, she smiled like the Cheshire Cat.
It was nice to see her again and see that Cheshire Cat grin of hers that she used to show so often when she was delighted. And the Jumbles thing — that was just her letting me know, as I awoke, that it really was her and she really came for a visit.
Thanks, Mom. Love you! I’ll hang on to the Jumbles book for you until your next visit from Heaven.
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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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