by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 22, 2020 | Living in Place
Stay Home – Stay Safe We’re spending the pandemic clearing brush from the edges of the fields and culling books from our library shelves. Both tasks have been on our To Do list for years, and neither has ever been done as comprehensively as now. It’s just never...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 16, 2020 | Living in Place
How This Year’s Seder Differed From Years Past During this year of the plague my family celebrated Passover via Zoom, a video conferencing platform. We connected over twenty households with people ranging in age from eight months to ninety years, from coast to...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 8, 2020 | Living in Place
Awareness Raising April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, part of an annual campaign to raise public awareness about sexual assault and sexual violence. It’s not a month of celebration, but one of education about both the prevalence of sexual violence and about ways...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 1, 2020 | Living in Place
Why have so many people reacted to the threat of the coronavirus by hoarding toilet paper? It’s a respiratory illness, not a gastrointestinal one. Panic and Hoard? I usually buy toilet paper a case at a time, enough to last more than a year even with frequent...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 25, 2020 | Living in Place
Are you over sixty and tired of being told that you’re old and at risk of dying from the coronavirus? OVER SIXTY AND O.K. I’m over sixty, I’m healthy, and I’m following best practices for avoiding contamination: staying home, maintaining social distance, and...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 23, 2020 | Living in Place
It’s possible to maintain social distance without suffering social isolation. As a writer, I’ve been negotiating the fine line between solitude and loneliness for years, which has come in handy as the coronavirus is keeping us all at home. Finding community while...
