My Short Story Published on Visual Verse

My recent short story Take Only What you Can Carry was published on Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words. I wrote this tale in response to the magazine’s visual prompt. The incredible people at Visual Verse liked it and published it in their August 2022, Vol. 09 Chapter 10 anthology. Hurray!

18/06/202214/04/2025

Fun to Be #CuCapuNZori LIVE on TVR1 with Anca and Bogdan

This morning I had so much fun chatting on #CuCapuNZori LIVE Show on TVR1 with Anca and Bogdan

I had so much fun chatting with Anca Mazilu and Bogdan Stănescu on #CuCapuNZori LIVE morning show on TVR1, Romania’s National Television station (with heartfelt thanks to Mircea Mitrofan). Hear me speak Romanian. Hit PLAY:

05/06/202219/11/2022

Talking to Andreea Archip from Libertatea, Romania, “cu drag”

Patricia Furstenberg talking to the talented Andreea Archip from Libertatea, one of Romania’s leading newspapers: it was a rewarding exercise of the mind and the heart.

14/02/202227/06/2022

Mary and Constantin Rosetti, a Love Like None Other #Im4Ro

‘None is happier than the poet for he lives twice, as a man and an angel. With the sole exception that through his earthly life he experiences nothing but happiness and candor. But what use is this material life to me, for when it offers me love, I feel unworthy to partake in it?’ These are the thoughts of young Rosetti of 24 years of age on the eve of the 1840’s Christmas.

16/12/202114/04/2025

Travelling from Mountain top to Sea side, Doors and Stories #Im4Ro

Medieval Fortress Rasnov Transylvania at sunset

Today we’ll be travelling from mountain top to sea side celebrating Thursday Doors and stories of 2021. I found it difficult to choose a handful of doors, but here are the ones that stuck to my heart…