by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 27, 2016 | Living in Place
Just days after lamenting the demise of my local newspaper, it carried good news in a banner headline: Reformer, Three Other Papers, Sold to Local Investors.Four men from Massachusetts are buying The Brattleboro Reformer and three other nearby papers in order to...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 20, 2016 | Living in Place
On the night of the first full-moon after the vernal equinox, Jews all over the world celebrate Passover, the holiday marking their escape from slavery in Egypt, including in Williamsville, Vermont. The Jews left Egypt in such haste, the story goes, they didn’t have...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 19, 2016 | Living in Place
Not many books I’ve read about writing and staying inspired have confronted the fear factor, so I was eager to read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. At long last, the library copy became available, and I have the book in my hands. What I...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 13, 2016 | Living in Place
The good news is that we live in an age of instant, global news.The bad news is that we live in an age of instant, global news.The good news is that we can find out what’s going on around the world 24/7.The bad news is that much of what’s broadcast is repeated on a...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 6, 2016 | Living in Place
Bernie Sanders has been called “elderly.”I don’t think so.I was enjoying Michael Kazin’s New York Times Magazine column about the term “populist” in American political history, a term that this election cycle has been applied to both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. I...
