by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 8, 2017 | Living in Place
Three Actions I Am Taking As promised, here’s more information about the three actions I’m taking to push back against the hard right turn of our national government that has emboldened hate-motivated speech and actions around the country. 1. Expanding my...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 7, 2017 | Living in Place
Coordination and Subordination In graduate school, I had a professor who said, “The hardest word in the English language to use properly is the conjunction ‘and’,” and “The key to success is subordination.” Coordination I just used the coordinating conjunction...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 1, 2017 | Living in Place
I’m grateful for a reader’s comment about Axes to Grind, reminding me that one way to cope with post-election anxiety is to “chop wood, carry water.” In fact, that’s what I’ve been doing since about three in the morning of November ninth, when it became apparent that...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 26, 2017 | Living in Place
I have two axes to grind: a two-and-a-quarter-pound Boy’s Ax, and a Fiskars 28” Splitting Ax. Tim gave me the Boy’s Ax for Christmas in 1984, my first winter in Vermont. I was living in a poorly insulated cabin smaller than my Manhattan apartment. I heated the cabin...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 25, 2017 | Living in Place
More To Say About Axes Last week, I had Axes to Grind; this week, I have more to say about axes. Even though I’d been using an ax for decades, it wasn’t until a few years ago at a course a course on Traditional Ax Skills that I learned all the names for the parts of...
