by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 13, 2020 | Living in Place
Telling Our Stories Workshops to be Rescheduled Telling Our Stories: A Workshop for Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Violence has been postponed to a later date due to the Covid-19 virus. If you would like to be notified when Telling Our Stories will be rescheduled,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 4, 2020 | Living in Place
Paul McCartney was sixteen when he wrote “When I’m Sixty-Four.” Paul McCartney, 1964 He and John Lennon revised and recorded it for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, released in 1967. Paul and John (as we called them) were twenty-five and twenty-seven,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 26, 2020 | Living in Place
In anticipation of National Sexual Abuse Awareness Month, Brooks Memorial Library, The Women’s Freedom Center, and The Commons are collaborating with writer and educator Deborah Lee Luskin in Telling Our Stories, a free writing workshop for survivors of sexual abuse...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 19, 2020 | Living in Place
A year and a half ago, I received an outpouring of support when my story about both being sexually abused by my grandfather as a child and about Vermont Public Radio not allowing me to use the word “grandfather” to identify my abuser appeared in The Commons. I was...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 12, 2020 | Living in Place
Eating food in season, less traveled, prepared at home, with ceremony, is a worthwhile way to lesson our personal carbon footprint. Blame Processed Food Don’t blame the cows for fourteen-and-a-half percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions; blame the Americans who...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 29, 2020 | Living in Place
Ian Goodnow, a candidate for Brattleboro Selectboard Candidate for Brattleboro Selectboard Brattleboro residents have a chance to bring a fresh perspective to the Select board by electing Ian Goodnow, a young, committed, energetic and thoughtful member of the...
