by Cindy Noonan | Mar 11, 2019 | Underground Railroad Nuggets, Worldview
Meet Mary Bibb For Women’s History Month I’d like to highlight a black woman crusader who has been largely unrecognized. Meet Mary Bibb, a historical character featured in my novel for kids, Dark Enough to See the Stars. She was born Mary Elizabeth Miles in Rhode...
by Cindy Noonan | Mar 4, 2019 | Underground Railroad Nuggets, Worldview
Paul Cuffee was born in 1759 on an island near New Bedford, MA to a free black man and a Wampanoag Indian woman. Coffee’s father had been captured and enslaved in Ghana, Africa, but his owners, who were Quakers, gave him his freedom because of their religious...
by Cindy Noonan | Feb 12, 2019 | Underground Railroad Nuggets
Digging for nuggets of history for my novel, Dark Enough to See the Stars, I uncovered some rare treasures. Brave people who put their lives on the line to help slaves escape on the Underground Railroad found their way into the pages of my book. One such person was...
by Cindy Noonan | Feb 5, 2019 | My Journey
October 6thI had hip surgery after falling and breaking my femur. (See my post Stopped in My Tracks.) God pointed out many miracles to me during my convalescence—the garbage men who helped me to the street after I fell, the outstanding surgeon who happened to be on...
by Cindy Noonan | Jan 28, 2019 | Worldview
I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden wealth of secret places, so that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name. Isaiah 45: 3 NASBI crawled out of bed early one morning and searched in the dark to find my...
by Cindy Noonan | Jan 21, 2019 | My Journey
Thud. One minute I was striding up the rocky and remote access road behind our high school and the next moment I lay sprawled on the ground. One slip on a rock, one misstep, and in one second this happy walker morphed into a casualty of exercise. I didn’t know it...
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