by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 12, 2018 | Living in Place
GIVING LOCALLY My husband and I have come to believe in giving locally, because the closer to home we give, the further our money goes. Each year brings us up close and personal with both our shared values and our good fortune as we decide how to allocate our...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 29, 2018 | Living in Place
The average age at our Thanksgiving table plummeted from 73 last year to 29 this. That’s a whopping drop of forty-four years – an entire generation, and then some. We had seventeen guests both years, though obviously not the same ones. Becoming an Elder Last year, my...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 21, 2018 | Living in Place
Right To Play is a guest post by Naomi Shafer, the Executive Director of Clowns Without Borders – USA and appears here with permission. Please go to the original post to see photos and to learn more about CWB, an organization that brings laughter where...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 14, 2018 | Living in Place
VERMONT’S POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE Vermont has a reputation for its political independence. Vermont never voted for four-term president Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the Vermont legislature declared war on Germany on September 16, 1941, before Pearl Harbor; and the Vermont...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 9, 2018 | Living in Place
Now that the election and all its distractions are over, perhaps we can turn our attention to the rise of domestic terrorism, which struck again the day after the election in Thousand Oaks, California. There have been over three hundred mass shootings in the United...
