I’m afraid I now sit in the seat (once again) of my reader. I am struggling with the loss of a loved one. This time it is my husband’s daughter. His first born.
Waiting for a visit is always difficult, after a loss. This wait seems particularly difficult. My husband has been through several catastrophes recently. I am filled with anxiety watching him try to weather another storm in his life. If only I could tell him, I’ve seen her. I’ve talked with her. She is fine. She is happy!
We pray for her every day. I talk to her every night, before I sleep. I invite her visit, but leave the choice with her.
It seems that while I wait each night for her visit, other passed loved ones, flit in and out of my dreams. However, nothing of any seeming significance. Perhaps they are simply like the TV announcer telling us to tune in again tomorrow night, same time, same station.
So here I shall be, struggling with the loss, hoping and waiting for that special first visit from her since her passing.
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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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