by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 21, 2019 | Living in Place
First Female Crew in Whitbread Race Maiden tells the story of the first all-female crew to sail in the Whitbread Around the World Race in 1989/90. Skippered by Tracy Edwards, the women didn’t just complete the race, nor did they just win two of the most difficult...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 14, 2019 | Living in Place
My cell phone’s ringer sounds just like the black wall phone that hung in the kitchen of my childhood, the one I learned to dial by standing on a chair. Phone Etiquette When I was tall enough, I answered it the way we’d learned in third grade – from a textbook...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 31, 2019 | Living in Place
“Fear is a Story We Tell Ourselves” Going Over the Edge At 5:30 AM one day in early July, I was roped into a climbing harness and walking backwards off a granite cliff. I had no fear. I’d taken to heart Cheryl Strayed’s words about how fear is a story we...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 24, 2019 | Living in Place
While this sign shows the property owner’s intent, it does not fulfill the requirements for legally posting land against hunting, which is a constitutional right in Vermont. Trespassing One day last November, I was hunting on a neighbor’s hundred-acre parcel...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 17, 2019 | Living in Place
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, transportation accounts for 29 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions. So even though I followed Leave No Trace practices while backpacking in the Grand Canyon, my recent trip was anything but carbon...
