by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 1, 2019 | Living in Place
My studio is again an internet-free zone. The unintended consequence of switching to faster technology is returning my studio into an internet-free zone. While unintended, this consequence is not bad. When I moved into my studio eight years ago, I had electricity but...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 24, 2019 | Living in Place
Two Tesla Powerwalls stacked against the wall. After eleven months of waiting, my house is now plugged in to Tesla Powerwalls. These sleek, large batteries are now installed next to the main circuit breaker in my basement, where they store electricity. Win-Win The...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 17, 2019 | Living in Place
Almost four years ago, I dissed Marie Kondo’s best-selling book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up as an entirely unreasonable approach to creating an uncluttered home. A House Bursting with Stuff At the time, I lamented the Myth of the Empty Nest: My kids had...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 15, 2019 | Living in Place
Ice Out is a big deal in northern New England, where we’re often four weeks into spring before the first spears of daffodils emerge from the soil, and five weeks or more before we see a yellow bloom. Ice Out means the weather really is shifting from early spring...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 5, 2019 | Living in Place
This is the text of the eulogy for my friend Jan Rutherdale I delivered yesterday at Centennial Hall in Juneau, Alaska. Once I overcame the shocking and unwelcome fact of Jan’s death, I was overtaken with a new and a forceful need to be present, to be unambiguously...
