by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 1, 2020 | Living in Place
Why have so many people reacted to the threat of the coronavirus by hoarding toilet paper? It’s a respiratory illness, not a gastrointestinal one. Panic and Hoard? I usually buy toilet paper a case at a time, enough to last more than a year even with frequent...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 25, 2020 | Living in Place
Are you over sixty and tired of being told that you’re old and at risk of dying from the coronavirus? OVER SIXTY AND O.K. I’m over sixty, I’m healthy, and I’m following best practices for avoiding contamination: staying home, maintaining social distance, and...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 23, 2020 | Living in Place
It’s possible to maintain social distance without suffering social isolation. As a writer, I’ve been negotiating the fine line between solitude and loneliness for years, which has come in handy as the coronavirus is keeping us all at home. Finding community while...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 13, 2020 | Living in Place
Telling Our Stories Workshops to be Rescheduled Telling Our Stories: A Workshop for Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Violence has been postponed to a later date due to the Covid-19 virus. If you would like to be notified when Telling Our Stories will be rescheduled,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 4, 2020 | Living in Place
Paul McCartney was sixteen when he wrote “When I’m Sixty-Four.” Paul McCartney, 1964 He and John Lennon revised and recorded it for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, released in 1967. Paul and John (as we called them) were twenty-five and twenty-seven,...
