by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 7, 2015 | Living in Place
Every fall, even people who aren’t birders make the annual pilgrimage to the top of Putney Mountain, where they watch the charismatic avifauna migrate south along the West and Connecticut River flyways. Up there, a group of regulars keep count of the red tails,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 6, 2015 | Living in Place
I recently met one goal and learned two lessons. One of my goals for 2015 was to update my Curriculum Vitae – or CV – an expanded resume of my published work and professional experiences and accomplishments. In January, I started listing every single book,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 30, 2015 | Living in Place
Vicky Senni’s life reads like a fairy tale: One day while working as a quality engineer for a multinational corporation, she fell asleep at her microscope, so she switched to teaching children about nature and couldn’t sleep at all.After substitute teaching in...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 22, 2015 | Living in Place
When I don’t know what I want to say, when I’m stuck in an essay or a scene or a business letter, or even when I’ve just been away on vacation and need to settle back at my desk, I always rediscover my voice by writing by hand. Handwriting is like a fingerprint,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 16, 2015 | Living in Place
Even though I used to live in New York City, where traffic and gridlock go hand in hand, I’ve become so rusticated during thirty years of rural living that now I think traffic is when I don’t know who’s driving the other car.Back in the early years, a friend who still...
