by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 11, 2018 | Living in Place
ORDINARY, DAILY DEMEANING SEXUAL ABUSE One of the reasons I came to Vermont in the summer of 1984 was to avoid the ordinary, daily, and demeaning sexual abuse that I experienced walking down the sidewalk, riding the subway, and trying to enjoy the outdoors of...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 3, 2018 | Living in Place
As promised in Living in Place in Alaska, this week’s post is by Megan Moody, a writer who lives on in Outback Alaska. ~DLL COMMUTING WITH BEARS I trudge along the muddy rainforest trail that skirts the ocean, headed towards home. The river ahead reeks of...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 2, 2018 | Living in Place
Just Read! Carry a magazine with you at all times. Keep a book in your car. Tuck a paperback into your messenger bag. Load a library onto your Kindle – and fire it up instead of checking your phone! Too much screen time! I’m trying this technique myself, because I...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 26, 2018 | Living in Place
Through the Woods and Off the Grid While traveling in place to visit my friend Jan, I paid a visit to Jan’s daughter Megan, who’s been living in place a forty-minute walk outside a remote village on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska. We arrived by ferry and walked...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 19, 2018 | Living in Place
My recent trip to Alaska was a Transportation Vacation. After a two-hour drive to the airport, it took three flights and all day to cross the continent and then north. Once in Alaska, I traveled by plane, boat and by foot. I flew in a plane the size of a mosquito...
