by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 14, 2016 | Living in Place
We were about ten minutes into our twenty-five day hike on the Long Trail, still two miles south of the Vermont border where the 275-mile Long Trail begins, when I said, “We’re not going to make it.” “What do you mean?” Jan asked. We’d been planning this trip for a...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 7, 2016 | Living in Place
The Nature of Marriage was broadcast on Vermont Public Radio on September 1, 2009, the day that Vermont’s first-in-the-nation Marriage Equity Law went into effect, making marriage a right, not a privilege. Regardless, marriage is still hard work. My...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 6, 2016 | Living in Place
While I’m hiking The Long Trail, I’m reposting old favorites. This one originally published on June 23, 2015. Sometimes, when you have too many programs open on your desktop, the computer freezes, and the only remedy is to perform a Force Quit and shut the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 31, 2016 | Living in Place
The profound devastation caused by Tropical Storm Irene continues to inspire lessons in recovery. This commentary was originally broadcast on the stations of Vermont Public Radio on the second anniversary of the storm.On the morning of Sunday, August 28, 2011, I...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 24, 2016 | Living in Place
When the late Dan Darrow was running for the state legislature in my district in 1996, he handed out a campaign brochure with the recipe for his famous blueberry pie.His opponent accused him of offering pie in the sky.For years, I kept the recipe for Darrow’s Famous...
