by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 13, 2015 | Living in Place
2014 was my year of the dog. We’d lost Bonnie, our canine companion, in August of 2013, and adopted Leo in January of 2014. During the five months we were without a dog, we also lost our bees to a bear, our flock to a fox, and our garden to deer. We needed a dog. We...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 7, 2015 | Living in Place
Before I can make the hundred-foot dash from my back door to my desk, I perform morning chores. These chores follow breakfast, which comes after an hour of writing by hand before dawn. In winter, my first task is to heat my studio, a jewel-box of a room with six...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 6, 2015 | Living in Place
Turning the calendar to a new year is always an opportunity to establish new and improved organizing systems of all kinds. Over the years, I’ve developed a few of my own, from celebrating Boxing Day by boxing up the year’s receipts to cleaning up my computer by...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 4, 2015 | Living in Place
In a typical Vermont winter, there’s a fleeting moment of good ice, for skating. Yesterday was it. Good ice depends on cold weather and no snow. Good skating years occur when winter snaps the water shut. Last year, winter arrived in late January with wonderful, deep,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 31, 2014 | Living in Place
Living in Place allows me to collect and store every scrap of paper that comes through my door. No matter how much junk mail I recycle at the PO or how many bills I pay on-line, papers still seep into the house and pile up on my desk like so much silt after a storm....
