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Practicing Personal Cyber Security

January 10, 2017 Deborah Lee Luskin

If the US elections can be hacked, so can your data. Are you protected? I took my concerns and my computer to Steve West at Fearless Computing to see what I could do to keep my data safe. MAC v. PC “You’re already using a Mac,” Steve said, “which puts you way ahead of the curve.” […]

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Affirmations, Not Resolutions

January 4, 2017 Deborah Lee Luskin

Resolutions only make you feel bad about yourself.

Affirmations, Not Resolutions I used to celebrate New Year’s Eve in the accepted and conventional manner: I’d stay up till midnight, fortify my resolve with champagne, and vow to live cleaner, work harder, and sustain a calm, orderly, life. I’d make these resolutions at midnight, and in the morning – just hours into the New […]

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Bucking the Usual Christmas Traditions

December 28, 2016 Deborah Lee Luskin

Bucking the Christmas Traditions

We bucked all our Christmas traditions this year. With none of our adult children at home and still reeling from the election, there didn’t seem any point in decorating a tree, baking cookies, or preparing a Christmas Day feast. So we didn’t. We hiked Stratton Mountain instead. The weather favored our outdoor ambitions: snow-cover, sunshine, […]

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Recipes for the Food We Carried

December 21, 2016 Deborah Lee Luskin

Jan, Saying Goodby

As promised, here are recipes for the food we carried on the Long Trail. GENERAL INFORMATION I purchased most of the ingredients for these recipes from the Brattleboro Food Coop, which runs a fabulous bulk department of grains, legumes, nuts, dried fruits, seeds and spices. I bought shelf-stable cheese tortellini, and prepackaged foods like pasta […]

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Snow in December!

December 14, 2016 Deborah Lee Luskin

to a dog, a stick is something to fetch

Snow in December! To have both sunshine and snow in December is a gift. On Monday, I woke to the town plow rumbling down my road: A few inches had fallen, and it was still coming down. This was a tremendous gift after last winter’s dearth of snow and this past summer’s drought. We need […]

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Deborah Lee Luskin, Writer

Deborah Lee Luskin is a writer by vocation, an educator by nature, and a Vermonter by choice. She is the author of Into the Wilderness, an award-winning love story set in 1964 in the fictional town of Orton, Vermont. Two more works-in-progress will complete The Orton Trilogy. Additionally, Deborah is finishing a memoir and blogs at Living in Place. Deborah coaches select clients working in long-form prose, and on Friday afternoons, she facilitates the Rosefire Writing Circle.

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