My husband, Mike, died on September sixth, 2022. Our warm, inviting home, filled with mementos of our love and life together, became cold and hollow with his bigger-than-life spirit missing.
I ran from the pain— my younger sister and I moved to Florida.
The grief followed me.
Having no more dream-visits from Mike, I wondered if I had actually lost his spirit by moving away. The grief weighed heavier by the day.
Last night, as I lie sleeping soundly, I heard him holler, “Hey, wife!” (he called me ‘wife’ most of the time in our life together.) It startled me wide awake. I knew exactly where his spirit-voice came from. Approximately 40 feet diagonally in front of me, to the right, and about 30 feet above the ground.
“Mike,” I breathed. With no answer, I asked, “Are you still here?” Again, no answer.
“It’s okay, I’m just glad you came and reached me. Thank you.”
The manner in which he hollered makes me wonder if he has been attempting to reach me, in the past, but I have not heard him.
I’m so happy to have had another, all-be-it brief, visit from him. It was thrilling to hear his voice again. It was not one of those visits where you hear it ‘in your head.’ I heard his voice from the external, reach my ears. Such a blessed moment.
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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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