It looks like my loved ones who have died (really just passed-on) have found a new way to contact me.
The telephone!
My mother-in-law, Virginia, just called me in my sleep this morning. (Call it a dream if you wish.)
I answered, “Hello?”
She answered with enthusiasm, “Geez, I got you!”
“Virginia!” I said.
She came right back with, “I haven’t talked with you in So Long! I miss you.”
“I miss you too!” I answered.
“I love you.” Her voice rushed.
“I love you, too.”
I realized I was talking with my deceased mother-in-law and just like that, the line went all fuzzy. I could hear her voice but it was all broken up by the static.
“Virginia!” I shouted into the phone.
Nothing but static.
The time is always short on these visits. But, we did experience this one more opportunity to tell each other that we loved them.
Thank you, God, thank you. Amen
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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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