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Deborah Lee Luskin

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Spring Came Late, Part Two

April 8, 2015 Deborah Lee Luskin

Here’s Spring Came Late, Part Two – an excerpt from my not-yet-published novel Elegy for a Girl, a heartbreaking love story between Mary Grace “Girl” Knight and her father, Harlan, whose hill-farm is bisected by construction of the new interstate highway in 1958. Spring continues to progress slowly in Vermont this year. The front door […]

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Spring Came Late, Part One

April 1, 2015 Deborah Lee Luskin

Spring Came Late is an excerpt from my not-yet-published novel Elegy for a Girl, a heartbreaking love story between Mary Grace “Girl” Knight and her father, Harlan, whose hill-farm is bisected by construction of the new interstate highway in 1958. Spring is arriving slowly and late this year, as it often does in Vermont. The […]

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Backcountry Skiing

March 25, 2015 Deborah Lee Luskin

As Vermont’s ski areas morphed into Destination Resorts, I gave up downhill skiing for cross-country; as cross-country skiing developed around groomed trails at Nordic ski centers, I stepped out of the tracks and went backcountry skiing. The Green Mountain National Forest is just twenty-five miles from my home. Despite the sunshine and the late March […]

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Sugaring Season

March 18, 2015 Deborah Lee Luskin

Vermont is a place of many seasons, and one of my favorites is Sugaring, when maple sap is harvested and boiled down to syrup. Sugaring season falls somewhere between winter and mud season – another of Vermont’s many seasons, and another precursor to Vermont’s long, slow, spring. Sugaring season occurs when the daytime temperature rise […]

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Amaryllis

March 11, 2015 Deborah Lee Luskin

In the deep of winter, my husband carries the amaryllis bulbs up from the basement. They arrive upstairs looking like nothing more than pots of dirt. Just as it seems as if winter will never end, it also looks as if the bulbs will never sprout. They appear dead; that new life might emerge from […]

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Deborah Lee Luskin, Writer

Deborah Lee Luskin is a writer by vocation and a Vermonter by choice. Into the Wilderness is her first published novel. Deborah is a skilled writer, talented teacher, eagle-eyed editor and entertaining public speaker. Contact Deborah with information about your project to find out how she can help you.


 

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    • Elegy for a Girl
    • Works in Progress
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    • Rosefire Revision Circle
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