by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 26, 2017 | Living in Place
Brattleboro Community Justice Center – BCJC I went to jail in 2005 to teach writing to inmates, and I got out thinking, there’s got to be a better way. It turns out, there is. It’s called Restorative Justice and it’s practiced throughout Vermont. I started...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 19, 2017 | Living in Place
Everyone cleared out of the house yesterday, and for the first time in a long while, I find myself home alone. I was only slightly disappointed that I couldn’t go with those heading off to the Whites to hike above tree line; I’m nursing a sprained ankle...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 18, 2017 | Living in Place
Summers used to interfere with my writing. There was so much to do – both farm work and fun – that I used to despair about advancing narrative projects and meeting deadlines. But I do. I changed my attitude about writing. Instead of heading straight for my desk after...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 12, 2017 | Living in Place
On Sunday, Tim and I harvested our first-ever crop of sour cherries. To say that this took most of the day would be an understatement. We planted the tree almost ten years ago, and this was the first time there were enough to pick. Other years, we’ve left the meager...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 6, 2017 | Living in Place
Point of View is the perspective from which a story is told. One of the best ways to understand Point of View is by example, so here are two versions of the same story told from two different points of view. A Touching Reunion is a story about a time when my husband...
