by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 26, 2020 | Living in Place
In anticipation of National Sexual Abuse Awareness Month, Brooks Memorial Library, The Women’s Freedom Center, and The Commons are collaborating with writer and educator Deborah Lee Luskin in Telling Our Stories, a free writing workshop for survivors of sexual abuse...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 19, 2020 | Living in Place
A year and a half ago, I received an outpouring of support when my story about both being sexually abused by my grandfather as a child and about Vermont Public Radio not allowing me to use the word “grandfather” to identify my abuser appeared in The Commons. I was...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 12, 2020 | Living in Place
Eating food in season, less traveled, prepared at home, with ceremony, is a worthwhile way to lesson our personal carbon footprint. Blame Processed Food Don’t blame the cows for fourteen-and-a-half percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions; blame the Americans who...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 29, 2020 | Living in Place
Ian Goodnow, a candidate for Brattleboro Selectboard Candidate for Brattleboro Selectboard Brattleboro residents have a chance to bring a fresh perspective to the Select board by electing Ian Goodnow, a young, committed, energetic and thoughtful member of the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 15, 2020 | Living in Place
While walking in my shirtsleeves in the balmy 58-degree sunshine on Sunday, I started to wonder if the ski industry is really good for Vermont. I’ve lost my enthusiasm for downhill skiing over the years, developing not just a dislike for the ungainly equipment and...
