by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 17, 2017 | Living in Place
The good news for those of us in middle age is the mounting evidence that regular, cardiovascular exercise can delay and possibly prevent the memory loss associated with aging; all we have to do is sweat. You’d have to be living under a rock not to know that aerobic...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 10, 2017 | Living in Place
I love being a mother, and I hate Mother’s Day While I was pregnant with our first child, friends, family and strangers assured me I could write while the baby slept. And I believed them. After all, I’d already navigated graduate school and wrote a...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 3, 2017 | Living in Place
Last Friday, we enjoyed a supper of all local food, some foraged, some farmed. FORAGED Tim’s co-worker Holly spent her lunch hour down by the river and returned to the office with a bucket full of fiddleheads and ramps. She sent a generous supply home with Tim. These...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 2, 2017 | Living in Place
Guest Post by Novelist Donna D. Vitucci The answer to my question, How long does it take to write a book? is fifteen for the novelist Donna Vitucci, who has just published Salt of Patriots after fifteen years of research, writing and revision. In this guest post,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 26, 2017 | Living in Place
Spring here is slow, steady and sweet. SLOW The slow procession of the season, from dirty snow to sparkling green pasture, breeds patience. Sweetness is the reward. First, sap rises from the ground, then steam from the sugarhouse, yielding amber syrup: the blood of...
