by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 5, 2016 | Living in Place
By our second day on the trail, Jan and I recognized the importance of developing routines; by the end of our hike, we were discussing ways to implement similar routines at home. ON THE TRAIL With more backcountry experience than me, Jan had more camping routines...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 4, 2016 | Living in Place
At the recent Northern Woodlands Conference, novelist Jeffrey Lent described growing up on a mid-century hill farm in southwest Vermont, where his father kept sheep and cows. Lent told us that so little heat rose from the wood stove through the floor registers into...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 28, 2016 | Living in Place
Monday marked my third week back in ordinary life, and a tsunami of resistance scattered my well-laid plans, smashing my productivity to sentence fragments. I returned to my Long Trail Journal for insight. My entry for my eleventh day on the trail reads, “A big day of...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 21, 2016 | Living in Place
TRAIL ANGELS Even though Jan and I were the ones hiking, we had help from a host of truly divine Trail Angels on the Long Trail. Before we even left, we had help. Back in July, three members of my family with lots of backpacking experience took me on a shake-down hike...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 20, 2016 | Living in Place
Following a “footpath in the wilderness” from Massachusetts to Canada has helped me learn how to meet a Big Goal. I’ve just returned from Hiking the Long Trail – the 275 mile recreational footpath that follows the spine of the Green Mountains the length of...
