by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 14, 2018 | Living in Place
You don’t have to suffer on Valentine’s Day. Really. Trust me on this. Expectation, it’s said, is the source of all suffering, and greeting card manufacturers, chocolatiers, jewelers, and florists would all have you believe that you are unloved – and possibly even...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 7, 2018 | Living in Place
This past weekend, I became acutely aware how I’m slowing down in middle age. We’d driven to Brooklyn to visit Naomi and Sam. It’s a drive I did weekly for the year and a half I commuted from Vermont to New York, packing teaching, research and psychotherapy into the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 6, 2018 | Living in Place
It’s clear from the many comments I received after my last post about semi-colons, that a review of clauses and conjunctions would be helpful. CLAUSES Clauses are a group of words that do a writer’s bidding. It’s important to be able to differentiate between the two...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 31, 2018 | Living in Place
Remembering Ursula K. LeGuin I never met Ursula K. LeGuin. nor have I read her famous novels. I have however, read many of her essays, a few of her children’s books, and one very haunting short story. I often to refer to her essay collection, Dancing at the Edge of...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 24, 2018 | Living in Place
Before the internet, I was a reader. Specifically, I used to read print: novels, scholarly articles, magazines, narrative non-fiction, and the labels on condiments in restaurants. This wasn’t because I was so interested in the ingredients as it was a form of...
