by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 22, 2017 | Living in Place
The biggest challenge of sculling for me is not balancing in a long, narrow boat nor wielding eight-foot oars, but seeing behind me. When I’m in my racing shell, I face where I’ve been but can’t see where I’m going. Fortunately, I row on the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 13, 2017 | Living in Place
MY SUMMER VACATION Last week I went on my long-anticipated summer vacation during which my husband and I planned to hike sixty miles of The Long Trail, bringing our twenty-plus year section hike to an end. DAY 1. We were exhausted and unprepared, so we stayed home,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 6, 2017 | Living in Place
WALKING AND WRITING AS A WAY OF LIFE Walking and Writing are a way of life for me. Hiking over the uneven terrain of uncertainty helps shake my ideas into place, and I return to my desk with mental clarity. When it’s emotional upset that blocks my progress,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 5, 2017 | Living in Place
WRITING My colleagues here have written eloquently about the value of journaling. Lisa describes journaling as A Method for Creative Discoveries, and Jamie lists 10 Ways Journaling Makes You a Better Writer. Like both of them, I’ve been journaling since I was quite...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 30, 2017 | Living in Place
Tim Shafer moved to Vermont in 1984 to serve as a National Health Service Corps physician in a medically underserved area. After completing his residency in Pennsylvania, he wanted to return to New England, where he’d grown up and where he’d attended medical school....
