by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 23, 2023 | Living in Place
I Stand Corrected I thought I was so environmentally virtuous by working from home and sending my words out into cyberspace. But a reader who responded to the post about the carbon footprint of road building burst that bubble. She called my attention “to the huge (and...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 3, 2023 | Living in Place
The torn up miles of Vermont Route 30 between Brattleboro and Newfane is no mere repaving project, but a full-depth reclamation (FDR) of the road surface. FDR requires making several passes over the ten miles that run from the corner of Cedar Street in Brattleboro, to...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 20, 2023 | Living in Place
Dowdy with Dust I’ve lived in my house going on twenty-seven years, long enough that some everyday objects had become dull and downright dowdy with dust. Dust accrues, and in the last few years, I recognized how it had started to fill in the pleats of the lampshades...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 6, 2023 | Living in Place
Iris spears poke murky loam April is the cruelest month. Today, I passed not one but two deer slain beside the road too dulled by hunger to avert too dull to be alert. Or maybe it was the drivers’ greed for speed after winter, rushing to beat the clock as if time...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 23, 2023 | Living in Place
Thirty-four inches of wet snow slides off the roof. It’s a sparkling, sunny, forty-five degree day and hard to believe that just a week ago we were digging out from thirty-four inches of wet snow after a late winter storm. As it accumulated, it snapped trees and power...
