Sacred Moments Press is honored to publish and preserve work rooted in memory, dignity, creativity, curiosity, and human connection. Our authors bring distinct voices and lived wisdom to the page. Each project is approached with careful listening and an editorial hand that protects the person inside the work.
Barb Ryan
Barb Ryan, M.S.—known as the “Guidess of Happiness”—is an author, longtime counselor, teacher, speaker, and the founder of Spiraling Toward Joy. For twenty-five years, her counseling work included supporting survivors of sexual abuse, domestic violence, and post-traumatic stress. Her work invites people to meet difficult feelings without judgment and move gently toward greater hope, possibility, and joy.
Barb is the author of Love Loves Fear, a tender book about the relationship between love and fear—and the possibility of transformation. Sacred Moments Press looks forward to republishing this beautiful work so it can continue reaching both little and big hearts.
Barb and Sacred Moments Press are also developing Tools of Upliftment: A Guided Companion for Returning to Joy. Rooted in Barb’s teachings and practical tools, the book is being shaped as a spacious, accessible companion for creating movement when a thought, feeling, or weight seems stuck—not through force or emotional bypassing, but through curiosity, witnessing, choice, and small openings toward relief.
Visit Barb Ryan at Spiraling Toward Joy.
Vern Arney
Vern T. Arney was a poet, artist, and deeply human observer of love, illness, memory, mortality, friendship, grief, and the desire to remain connected. Intelligent, creative, funny, stubborn, and complicated, he wrote with tenderness, humor, exhaustion, longing, and flashes of startling clarity.
Vern grew up in Schenectady, New York. He loved his wife, Maggie, and endured the profound loss of her death. He died on May 29, 1993, at the age of forty-nine, during an era when AIDS was still surrounded by fear, stigma, and cruelty. That history belongs beside his work, but it is not the whole of his story.
Sacred Moments Press is preserving Vern’s surviving poems in Fixed in Time: Poems by Vern Arney. Originally typed on loose pages and carried forward by those who loved him, the collection is being prepared with a light editorial hand that preserves his wording, spacing, silences, imperfections, and the living character of the original pages.
There are some voices that do not ask to be polished.
Only preserved.
Nancy Sinkora
Nancy Sinkora’s imagination, warmth, and creative spirit are part of the roots from which Sacred Moments Press grew. Her work is being lovingly preserved through Nancy the Fairy Child, a family story project that carries her voice, wonder, and legacy forward.
Nancy was the mother of Naomi Gennevieve Baker. Bringing her work back into the light is both a publishing project and an act of remembrance: a way of honoring the stories families carry, the art that might otherwise be lost, and the love that continues speaking across generations.
Naomi Gennevieve Baker
Naomi Gennevieve Baker is a writer, end-of-life caregiver, advocate, community organizer, and the founder of Sacred Moments Press. Her work grows from decades of listening closely to people at the tender edges of life—through caregiving, more than ten years of domestic violence and sexual-assault advocacy, community work, grief, faith, family, and the ordinary moments in which dignity is either protected or denied.
Naomi writes about communication, caregiving, social engagement, memory, loss, love, and how we treat one another. Her developing books include How We Treat Each Other: Choosing Dignity Over Contempt, Thoughts on Caregiving, and The Soul Is a Witness. Her creative work also moves through poetry, memoir, charcoal drawing, and collaborative legacy preservation.
As publisher and editor, Naomi works with authors, artists, and families to bring books and creative legacies into the world without polishing away the living person inside them. Her guiding questions are simple and demanding: What deserves to be preserved? What truly serves? And how can stories be held with care?
She lives and writes in the Saratoga County region of New York. Her work is rooted in love, peace, curiosity, and the belief that the way we treat each other—in public, in private, and in the smallest moments—matters.