The Rest

Here are the odds and ends, the links to the “by the way” stuff that doesn’t belong on the primary tabs.

  1. Lisa’s Bio
  2. Robert Burns songs from the book
  3. Family Trees
  4. Miscellaneous Links

Lisa’s Bio

At the Burns Museum in Alloway Scotland, with the forensic recreation of Robert Burns’ face.

Here’s a story about Lisa, told in the third person, like all good bios.

Lisa Bonnice is an award-winning writer and humorist, and a program host with The Shift Network. She received two excellence awards from MSNBC.com during her tenure there as a news writer/associate producer. She also traveled the country as a stand-up comic, working with the likes of Tim Allen and Steve Harvey.

She has hosted numerous summits for The Shift Network, including the Ancestral Healing Summit, Beyond the Veil Summit, and Intuitive Medicine Summit. Lisa also co-created the “Generations Oracle” kit with Carrie Paris.

Her first book, Shape Shifting: The Body/Mind/Spirit Weight Solution, includes a foreword by Neale Donald Walsch, with whom she worked within the organization he founded, Humanity’s Team, as regional director for the entire southern portion of the United States. Her true crime novel, Fear of Our Father, was twice featured on the Investigation Discovery network and on a Court TV documentary. Her recent novel, a metaphysical comedy called The Poppet Master, includes a foreword by Marc Allen, publisher at New World Library (and the man who discovered Eckhart Tolle).

She has been a program host with The Shift Network for over seven years, where she has interviewed luminaries such as Gregg Braden, Anita Moorjani, and Thomas Hübl. She also hosted an online chat show, Mind Yourself, where she interviewed experts in human transformation.

Her current writing project, based on actual events found in her family tree, spurred Lisa into her almost obsessive interest in ancestral healing. While doing genealogy research, she discovered an ancient witch trial and generational curse, which explained an awful lot about unusual patterns and illnesses in her life and those of her family. This book series, titled The Maxwell Curse, tells how ancestral legacies can ripple across time for centuries, leaving havoc in their wake. Book 1 in the series, entitled Castle Gate, is due for publication in late 2023.

http://www.lisabonnice.com

Robert Burns songs from the book

There are many versions online of each of these songs, but these are the videos I played the most to tune in, so to speak, to the vibe of the songs I included in Castle Gate, in order of appearance:

Not a song, but a poem by Burns, Address to a Haggis, which Bill Littlejohn recites in Chapter 15, at the Burns Night Supper hosted by his brother John.

This is a good version of Ye Banks and Braes, which Geordie sings in that same chapter.

Singer Midge Ure, of Ultravox, performs the Rabbie Burns song A Man’s a Man for A’ That at the Fifth Session Opening Ceremony of the Scottish Parliament.

Another fantastic version of this Burns classic by Paolo Nutini.

There Was a Lad Was Born in Kyle is one of my favorite Burns songs, but there aren’t any videos that I really love. This one has the upbeat tempo and spirit to fit the mood of the scene in the book.

This isn’t a Burns song, but it is an old Scottish tune, which Helen sings to Ella in Chapter 16:

This song isn’t even in the book, but it’s one of my most favorite Burns songs and a fantastic rendition:

This isn’t a Burns song either, but a great Scottish tune (and the unofficial national anthem) that I’m sneaking in here to see if you’re paying attention:

Family Trees

If you’re wondering how everyone is related, here is a page with visual family trees, to help make sense of all the names.

Here’s a mishmash of links that don’t really need an entire page or heading to themselves, but were worth adding to the site.

When Helen and the girls cross the Atlantic, the cast of the Broadway Revue La Chauvre Souris is also on board the SS Lapland, and they perform a few numbers from their show. One of them is a dance sequence that the Rockettes made famous (the cast was really onboard the ship, but I do not know if they actually performed … this scene was written as a fun demonstration of who was on the ship):

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