by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 18, 2018 | Living in Place
The Hallowell Singers bring music to the dying. They came last week to sing to my father – and to me. Five singers quietly entered his hospice room and sang a cappella, transforming his standard hospital room into a space as sacred and holy as any mountaintop or...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 11, 2018 | Living in Place
Rhubarb is one of the first plants to poke through the soil each spring. Its great knobs of wrinkled leaves pushing through mulch like a crowning baby’s head. In less than a month, the plants are gigantic. The leaves grow to the size and shape of the blade of a...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 10, 2018 | Living in Place
B.S. is one of the abbreviations I pencil in the margin of prose I’m reviewing –my own or a client’s. It stands for Be Specific, though it evokes a different two-word expletive that means much the same thing. The best way to be specific is to know what you...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 4, 2018 | Living in Place
Smorgasbord American cuisine is a veritable smorgasbord of international cuisines. The word smorgasbord itself is Swedish, and refers to a particular kind of buffet (from the French), where food is laid out for diners to serve themselves. The traditional Scandinavian...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 2, 2018 | Living in Place
In British English, punctuation at the end of a sentence is called a “full stop,” – just like the red, octagonal, road sign at an intersection. Indeed, basic punctuation is a great deal like road signs, instructing the reader when to slow down, yield, and...
