Phoebe Bell Honig, known
to friends as “Bing”, was born and grew up by the ocean, in beautiful
Marblehead, Massachusetts, where she was filled with a passion for
nature and color. As an outgrowth of her childhood, with endless
exposure to ever-changing, colorful, ocean-side scenery, she attended
Rhode Island School of Design, an art school where she majored in
illustration. After graduation, she accepted employment in the far
western end of her home state, in the Berkshires, an area rich in scenic
hills and pastoral settings. After moving there, to Pittsfield, she
married and brought up three sons.
From her formal education, she learned to look closely at things, to
notice particular details, and to artfully illustrate what she saw. This
type of skill became much useful to her as she grew in age and in her
ability to perceive things, and more particularly, as her primary
interest had begun to shift from artwork and illustrations to writing.
During a period of her life when she was seeking higher guidance and
greater joy, her customary early-morning walks become a time of noticing
things more intensely and sensing what her Lord and God might have to
tell her through what she saw. Her lessons and inspirations are what she
has shared in this book, “Walking in the Light”. As a result of her
walks and inspirations, she was led to write extensively.
Phoebe has been published in Decision magazine; the book Reasons to be
Glad, published by Decision magazine; the booklet Daily Guideposts;
Unity magazine; Home Life magazine; The Berkshire Eagle newspaper;
Sunday Digest and the Sunday Sampler (inserts in The Berkshire Eagle);
Minnesota Ink magazine; The Ohio Motorist magazine; the book
Time for
Singing, published by Standard Publishing; the book Reflections,
published by Women’s Aglow; the book Berkshire Review; and, E CaPsules,
published by Biannual Newsletter of Exceptional Cancer Patients, Inc.
In the time-honored tradition of such poets as Walt Whitman, she
published a book of her poetry, An Angel — Or A Fool? She continues to
sketch landscapes and write non-fiction, poetry, memoirs and
inspirational pieces. Also, Phoebe leaves time for frequent walks and
other physical activity, as well as being a wife, a mother and a
get-down-on-the-floor-and-play grandmother.
