My friend’s son visited me, from beyond the veil, last night. I was surprised to see Danny.
In this life, he was always a stout young man with a clean shaven face. In our meeting last night, he was no longer stout and wore a redish, brown beard.
Unlike his father, who visited me the night before, Danny was happy. He smiled and laughed as we talked. He mentioned frightening my youngest daughter (when she was perhaps 3 years old) when he drove into their yard, next to ours, with his loud motorcycle. She ran into the house, crying.
“I think it was just that once wasn’t it? He asked a bit concerned.
“No,” I had to tell him. “It happened several times.”
He obviously felt bad about that, but was soon laughing again, recalling old times.
I am grateful that Danny is happy, like his mother, and not in a state of mourning, like his father.
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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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