by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 3, 2017 | Living in Place
Vermonters By Choice is an occasional column about people who, like Ethan Allen, came to Vermont from away. Every year, the Select Board of my town nominates a person or persons to be honored with the dedication in the Town Report. This year they chose Laura and Fred...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 23, 2017 | Living in Place
Punctuation Changes Meaning. Without punctuation, words strung together lack meaning. dear john i want a man who knows what love is all about you are generous kind thoughtful people who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior you have ruined me for other...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 22, 2017 | Living in Place
“Political Sabbath” aired on the stations of Vermont Public Radio on February 13, 2017. The views expressed in “Political Sabbath” are entirely my own. I’m a grandchild of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who came to the US between 1909...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 15, 2017 | Living in Place
Yesterday, I committed a failure to fact check. A reader informs me that in yesterday’s post, I inaccurately stated, “Swastikas have defaced Jewish-affiliated buildings in Sarasota, Florida; in Esperance, New York; and Cincinnati, Ohio”. She’s absolutely correct that...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 14, 2017 | Living in Place
It’s Valentine’s Day, and I’ve joined the Local Love Brigade to help counter hate with love. The Local Love Brigade – Vermont maintains a list of people who’ve been victimized by hate crimes, a list that’s been growing since the election of Donald Trump. In the...
