by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 26, 2016 | Living in Place
I needed an image of a Renaissance self portrait for a recent post on my blog, but having made an expensive mistake once, I’ve become hyper vigilant about sourcing free images. In my search for digital images I could use free and clear, I made two discoveries worth...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 20, 2016 | Living in Place
The art of self-portraiture has advanced significantly since the Middle Ages, from panel portraits by European artists in the fifteenth century to high-resolution videos of internal organs of middle aged Americans in the twenty-first.Not content even with the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 13, 2016 | Living in Place
Recently, I’ve been attending retirement parties with the frequency I once attended weddings. Unlike weddings, however, these parties have been lighthearted, informal and fun. They’ve been free of the anxieties about the future, finances, fertility and fidelity –...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 12, 2016 | Living in Place
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about staying inspired. I’m not talking about finding ideas, characters, plots, essay topics or images for poems, but encouragement to keep writing and affirmation that writing is well worth the effort. I’m talking about staying...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 6, 2016 | Living in Place
You can get here from there, but it’s not easy.Jonathan and Leslie arrived from the West Coast on Christmas Day, riding the tail end of unusual shirtsleeve weather, which certainly made for easy driving, listening to an audio book the way down on dry pavement and...
