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Lessons from the Long Trail

Connecting: Eulogy for A Friend

April 5, 2019 Deborah Lee Luskin

Connecting: Eulogy for a Friend

This is the text of the eulogy for my friend Jan Rutherdale I delivered yesterday at Centennial Hall in Juneau, Alaska. Once I overcame the shocking and unwelcome fact of Jan’s death, I was overtaken with a new and a forceful need to be present, to be unambiguously loving, to say yes, and to connect. […]

Lessons From The Long Trail, Living in Place

MY SUMMER VACATION

September 13, 2017 Deborah Lee Luskin

My Summer Vacation

MY SUMMER VACATION Last week I went on my long-anticipated summer vacation during which my husband and I planned to hike sixty miles of The Long Trail, bringing our twenty-plus year section hike to an end. DAY 1. We were exhausted and unprepared, so we stayed home, did laundry, packed trail food, and sorted gear. […]

Lessons From The Long Trail, Living in Place

Walking & Writing as a Way of Life

September 6, 2017 Deborah Lee Luskin

Walking & Writing

WALKING AND WRITING AS A WAY OF LIFE Walking and Writing are a way of life for me. Hiking over the uneven terrain of uncertainty helps shake my ideas into place, and I return to my desk with mental clarity. When it’s emotional upset that blocks my progress, walking helps calm me, and being in […]

Lessons From The Long Trail, Living in Place

Hiking Vermont’s Long Trail for the Second Time

June 28, 2017 Deborah Lee Luskin

Second Time Around

Much to my own disbelief, I’m planning to complete Vermont’s Long Trail for the second time in two years. This sounds more outlandish than it actually is. Unlike last year’s end-to-end hike from Massachusetts to Canada in twenty-five days, this year, I’m going to finish the section hike my husband and I started in the […]

Lessons From The Long Trail

Following the Trail

April 19, 2017 Deborah Lee Luskin

Jan, Saying Goodby

Following the trail across roads, over ski areas, and through towns was harder than hiking through the woods. ROADS We’d only been on the trail about twenty-four hours when we came to our first road crossing. We heard the road well before we stepped out of the woods at Route 9. I’d been to this trailhead […]

Lessons From The Long Trail

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Deborah Lee Luskin, Writer

Deborah Lee Luskin is a writer by vocation and a Vermonter by choice. Into the Wilderness is her first published novel. Deborah is a skilled writer, talented teacher, eagle-eyed editor and entertaining public speaker. Contact Deborah with information about your project to find out how she can help you.


 

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