by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 7, 2018 | Living in Place
The Town Moderator Speaks Yesterday was Town Meeting Day in Vermont, and I’m Town Moderator in Newfane. As I have been doing for the last decade, I take care to set the tone with my opening remarks. What follows is an abbreviated version of this year’s Civic Homily....
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 6, 2018 | Living in Place
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: There are three general ways to use a colon: to introduce a list; to separate numerals in references and time; and to separate a title from a sub-title. ONE: Introducing a List The sentence above is...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 1, 2018 | Living in Place
When I moved to Vermont in 1984, one of the two things I missed most about New York City was the movies. I especially missed the revival houses where I’d watched Fred Astaire dancing in black and white, and Technicolor classics like Rear Window and Ben-Hur. By the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 21, 2018 | Living in Place
When Winter Gives You Lemons . . . Make Lemon Curd Lemons don’t grow in Vermont in the winter – or any other time of the year. Not much grows in Vermont during the winter – not when they’re cold and snowy. Sure, there’s a traditional and mostly predictable January...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 20, 2018 | Living in Place
I first learned about Scrivener, a program to help writers organize long-form projects, from a post by J.A. Hennrikus, right here on Live to Write, Write to Live. A few months later, she posted again about Scrivener, this time about taking a course about how to use...
