by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 6, 2020 | Living in Place
While hanging laundry on Sunday, I watched a house wren furnishing her nest in a birdhouse hanging nearby. Last year, we had a house wren inhabit the same birdhouse, which then hung at one end of the clothesline. The wren emerged every time I came out to hang or unpin...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 29, 2020 | Living in Place
There’s nothing funny about Covid-19, which is why a little levity is in order. And who better to provide it than the folks who bring resilience through laughter to those who need it most even when there isn’t a coronavirus circling the globe? Lars Uribe performs with...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 22, 2020 | Living in Place
Stay Home – Stay Safe We’re spending the pandemic clearing brush from the edges of the fields and culling books from our library shelves. Both tasks have been on our To Do list for years, and neither has ever been done as comprehensively as now. It’s just never...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 16, 2020 | Living in Place
How This Year’s Seder Differed From Years Past During this year of the plague my family celebrated Passover via Zoom, a video conferencing platform. We connected over twenty households with people ranging in age from eight months to ninety years, from coast to...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 8, 2020 | Living in Place
Awareness Raising April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, part of an annual campaign to raise public awareness about sexual assault and sexual violence. It’s not a month of celebration, but one of education about both the prevalence of sexual violence and about ways...