by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 16, 2015 | Living in Place
Tis the year’s midnight, and I’ve been reading John Donne to light my way in the pale squibs of light during the seven brief hours of these short days. Without snow, those daylight hours are drab, dun; life is shrunk,/Dead and enterr’d. Poetry is to my soul what...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 15, 2015 | Living in Place
Today’s Guest Post is by Suzanne d’Corsey, friend, neighbor, and author of the debut novel, The Bonnie Road (ThunderPoint Publishing), a novel where setting informs plot, character and action. The Winter Solstice is fast approaching. As the silver sun...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 9, 2015 | Living in Place
December’s already a hard month of waning light and dwindling days without adding the anxiety of elbowing my way through frantic shoppers or digging myself into debt. With so little daylight, staying cheerful in December is difficult enough, even without the anxiety...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 2, 2015 | Living in Place
I like to give gifts. I just don’t like to shop: not for groceries, not for clothes, not for cars. Shopping takes time away from things that I do enjoy, like my work, cooking, gardening, playing outdoors and reading. I especially dislike shopping...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 1, 2015 | Living in Place
Just as I try to eat locally sourced food, I also like to give locally sourced books as gifts, especially in December, which begins with my husband’s birthday. For the past twenty-six years, my friend and neighbor Archer Mayor has provided me with a Joe Gunther...
