by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 30, 2020 | Living in Place
I’ve recently raised signs at the entrance to my house to show all passersby that I stand in solidarity with Black Americans. I’m simultaneously standing with white Americans who, like me, have been awakened to how our national, financial, housing, cultural and...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 29, 2020 | Living in Place
Protect the First Amendment Of all Donald Trump’s abuses of power, the use of unmarked law enforcement officers against American citizens in Portland is the one that makes me want to curl up in a hole or flee. Unmarked LEOs tear-gassing and abducting citizens...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 8, 2020 | Living in Place
The last time I was stopped for speeding was in 2002. I was on a New Hampshire state highway, heading home from Concord, where my two thirteen-year old passengers had just auditioned for a summer ballet program. I was driving my husband’s 1998 black Isuzu pickup with...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 17, 2020 | Living in Place
How is it that until this year, I didn’t know about Juneteenth, the anniversary of the day the news of the Emancipation Proclamation made it to Texas, then a remote outpost? How is it that until this year, I didn’t know that Juneteenth has been a state holiday in...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 20, 2020 | Living in Place
One of the ways hunting has changed me, is now I can’t stay out of the woods. Before I started hunting, I mostly walked on dirt roads. When I did go into the woods, it was always along a trail, and rarely alone. That’s what has changed. I head for the woods. Now, even...
