LISABETTA – a stolen glance
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‘AMUSE BOUCHE’ … WORDS TO AMUSE THE MOUTH
LISA IS A BIG GIRL… She can speak for herself! “My name, Lisabetta Buti was an affront to my existence. I was Leonardo da Vinci’s beloved kid-sister, his assistant and apprentice, and the mother he was denied. We were born … Continue reading
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THE ‘MONA’LOGUE
For anyone who wonders if it’s true that writers’ characters can get inside an author’s head, the answer is… absolutely. Personally, I welcome such invasions because there are iffy times when my muse and I are at complete odds. “SPEAK … Continue reading
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APRIL 15th… A GOOD DAY / BAD DAY
It may have been Charles Dickens who inspired the loaded announcement ‘I have good news and bad news’ in his famous opening line: ‘It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.’ Of all the April 15ths … Continue reading
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CHARACTERS DYING TO TELL THEIR TALES
Presenting three of my artful characters dying to speak: LISABETTA BUTI (the ‘Mona Lisa’ and Leonardo da Vinci’s kid sister), SANDRO BOTTICELLI (fifteenth-century master painter), and FINN CLEARY (a child victim onboard Titanic) When the red leaves fall, the October … Continue reading
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LEONARDO’S CAMERA…
the low tech high-renaissance 15th century i-phone Leonardo carried these ‘libricini’ (tiny notebooks) everywhere to record what he saw and jot down ideas. Texting was 500 years in Leonardo’s future. Writing was awkward. It’s not as if Leonardo carried a … Continue reading
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CELEBRATION OF A TYPO
…how a 500-year-old spelling mistake was enough to confound history and gift me a premise for a time-slip ghost story Excerpt from ‘LISABETTA-a stolen glance’ [But for a single misshapen letter, I … Continue reading
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READING IS BELIEVING!
If you believe in second childhoods… I invite you to time-slip with me into worlds where buildings and trees speak truths that can save the world. Cross the borders of liminal consciousness of my stories and visit haunted realms inhabited … Continue reading
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MEMORIES… FROM THE CORNERS OF MY FRIDGE…
…Sfumato memories… of the way it might have been (*sfumato means misty watercolor) A DAYDREAM IN THE LIFE OF A WRITER OF PARANORMAL HISTORY Leonardo’s experimental painting was missing a special something. He flexed his long … Continue reading
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TIS’ THE SEASON
for ghostly goings on When the last red leaves fall, the October sky darkens with rain and snow, and the frost on the pumpkin glows silver in the moonlight, banish the endless stream of seasonal macabre that play on human … Continue reading
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THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
April 15 – 1452 The illegitimate son of a lawyer and a woman we know only as Catarina, is born in the town of Vinci, in Tuscany, Italy. The child’s unspectacular entrance into the … Continue reading
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