by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 23, 2016 | Living in Place
Immigration Stories & Stories of Displacement We all have immigration stories, and they all bear retelling. After all, there were only 102 passengers on the Mayflower and there are currently about three hundred and twenty-five million people currently living in...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 16, 2016 | Living in Place
Hiking the length of the Long Trail is a lesson in living without. For twenty-five days on the long trail, I enjoyed living without cosmetics, without showers, without a change of clothes, without social media, email or the internet. And I didn’t miss them at all. NO...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 15, 2016 | Living in Place
TELLING STORIES ON THE LONG TRAIL Hiking eleven hours a day is hard, but it was never boring, because my hiking buddy and I took turns telling stories. Jan and I met in college and have been living apart ever since: she in Alaska and me in Vermont. We’ve kept in touch...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 9, 2016 | Living in Place
When anyone on the Long Trail asked me where I was heading last summer, I always said, “Canada.” One man replied, “Before the election?” This was in late August. I’d been on the trail for two weeks, and I’d forgotten about the election. At Sterling Lake, we spoke with...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 2, 2016 | Living in Place
While watching a recent Live in HD transmission of Don Giovanni, opera and politics collided, turning into a sharp commentary for what’s going on in American politics today. Don Giovanni is a licentious aristocrat, a libertine who relentlessly seduces women and even...
