by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 16, 2020 | Living in Place
Democracy & Public Health Due to the on-going pandemic, I am recommending that we hold Newfane’s 2021 Annual Town Meeting by Australian Ballot, according to the emergency provisions provided by the Legislature in the interest of public safety. Our options, my...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 15, 2020 | Living in Place
I hope this post finds you as well as can be under the present circumstances of pandemic, political and social unrest, and economic challenges. And despite all this, I hope you are writing. Vermont Almanac I have been so engrossed in learning to hunt whitetail deer...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 11, 2020 | Living in Place
New Publication Now Available My essay about how deer hunting has helped me fall in love with November appears in the inaugural edition of Vermont Almanac, a 288-page, 7×10 book that has just arrived in bookstores. Published by For the Land Publishing, the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 28, 2020 | Living in Place
4th Annual Writing to the Light Writing Circle to Benefit Library Writing to the Light As the calendar winds down and the northern hemisphere tilts away from the sun, come join me for the Fourth Annual Writing Circle, Writing to the Light. The workshop will take place...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 31, 2020 | Living in Place
“I imagine your life in VT going along in much the same way as usual…Tim going to work, Deb going to the writing studio and plenty of hiking, etc., on the off hours,” reads Cousin Becky’s recent email. What she imagines is, in fact, what is real. Not Much Has...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 30, 2020 | Living in Place
I’ve recently raised signs at the entrance to my house to show all passersby that I stand in solidarity with Black Americans. I’m simultaneously standing with white Americans who, like me, have been awakened to how our national, financial, housing, cultural and...