by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 18, 2016 | Living in Place
Traveling in Place is how a place-based person like me enjoys seeing the world. After six days of urban living, we migrated from Dan and Lene’s sleek Copenhagen apartment to their relaxed country house in Blavand, on the west coast of Denmark.First, we drove through...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 17, 2016 | Living in Place
I asked Google, “What does a writer want?” I found a variety of answers. Lev Raphael says we want “Everything,” and quotes Roxane Gay saying writers “want and want and want.” Some writers will say they want fame, others money, some just want luck. I think what a...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 11, 2016 | Living in Place
It’s a natural progression from Living in Place to Traveling in Place.Traveling in place is not armchair travel: it requires packing a duffle, boarding a plane, and watching movies until you’re in another time-zone. It’s what I did last week, when I flew to...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 4, 2016 | Living in Place
Even though I live in an open meadow, I walk in the shaded woods of the Town Forest, an unintended consequence of the new Town Garage.The highway crew used the old highway shed long past it had outgrown its capacity. The old shed dated back to the days of snow...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 3, 2016 | Living in Place
You’ve all heard the mantra, “Recycle, Reuse, Reduce” in terms of paper, plastic bags and trash. The mantra also applies to writing. It is possible to recycle ideas, reuse stories and research and reduce effort. Recycle. Sometimes, it’s possible to mine one piece of...
