The Lost Button

About the Book

The Lost Button is about the importance of truth. Young Hildegard finds this out in a most unexpected way. In the north, among a very cold winter, Hilda and her sister visit their grandma and enjoy their time while learning a craft new to them. They find out that this craft involves many types of different buttons. Hilda loses track of one and dreads the possibilities of having lost one of Grandma’s beautiful buttons. Hilda goes through motions of worry, anxiety, stress, and a loss of appetite over her decision on hiding that she lost the button. She must decide whether or not truth is to be freed or to imprison it, enabling it to further harm her on the inside. A very important lesson has embarked on her path. It’s a lesson we all learn as we grow and make the same choices, and not just once, but several times in our lives in this place. The truth is a powerful instrument, and it’s dangerous to our physical bodies to conceal. So the question then is, Will you choose to free truth or keep it hidden?

About the Author

I came from a medium sized family that grew up in a small city in Minnesota. My interest in writing had started very young. When I was 6, I started writing stories and illustrating them. I have been hooked ever since! I now am married and have mothered several children that are precious bright lights of love and hope in our lives. I’ve always gone on walks in whatever neighborhood I have lived in, whether it was with my younger sister and I as teens venting about our day or her accompanying me and my first born in effort to aid losing my baby weight. The habit has now become a favorite activity that I’ve done and still do with all my children as well as with my husband too. It started to become a time we’d not only walk, but where I’d try out story ideas with them, or make one up as we’d walk. Our children also take turns and have a go at it too. This is one of those stories that I had created in part, on one of our several walks. I really enjoyed working on this tale and hope you enjoy reading it!