by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 5, 2019 | Living in Place
I’ve just returned from a seven-day backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon, and can list what makes for a great vacation. Get Away. This requires overcoming my dislike of air travel, but well worth it. To make it more bearable, I fly out of a regional airport that’s...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 29, 2019 | Living in Place
If only pedestrians would cross at the crosswalk, and motorists would heed the speed limit, we’d all be safer on our public thoroughfares. Photo by Vinta Supply Co. | NYC from Pexels When I’m driving down Main Street in Brattleboro, I wish pedestrians would...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 22, 2019 | Living in Place
Cindy Leszczak Grows Tomatoes Cindy Leszczak grows tomatoes – about two thousand of them. What was once a way to grow enough to feed her family during a long winter has become a passion for what she calls, “Jewels you can eat.” This year, Cindy’s filled her...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 15, 2019 | Living in Place
We recently had a visit from Our Mutual Friend, Melon. 1976 Our Mutual Friend. I met Melon in 1976, when we were both studying at the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 8, 2019 | Living in Place
Heaps of Papers Following the high of tidying all my clothes with Ruth, we moved on to the office – a room off the front hall that I’d come to loathe for its heaps of papers, the filing of which has been on my “To Do” list for going on a decade. Resistance Leo has...
