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Diana Barker Price Writer |
Growing up in Michigan and Massachusetts: Black and White Shapes Before I could read, I loved seeing the black and white shapes and listening to the sounds of my parents reading aloud. Maybe I was entranced by the music of their voices but I like to imagine that I was creating stories of my own. |
About Me |
Multipurpose Magenta Soon I wrote and drew my own colorful worlds. My best storybooks were cut into special shapes and had pop-up windows or were drawn with my favorite magenta crayon. I loved the color magenta and the way the word sounded. M-a-g-e-n-t-a. The word swirled in my head, like sunset and twilight mixing into a purplish world. Magenta was my creative sparkle. And it was the best color for everything. |
Turtle Toes In the summers my imagination swam in lakes. I floated in the water, pulling my toes toward the surface, away from the snapping turtles lurking at the muddy bottom. I tried not to believe my grandfather's tales about turtles coming out at the full moon and snapping at anything red. But I would still never wear a red bathing suit. And luckily magical magenta is closer to purple than red. |
Solving Puzzles I loved to solve jigsaw puzzles, right side up with the pictures or upside down with no clues but the shapes. Then I found the world of three-dimensional puzzles: paths through the woods, tunnels through snow, tree limbs reaching into the sky. And now my puzzles are with words: characters, thoughts, actions, instincts and emotions. All woven together into stories. |