by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 26, 2019 | Living in Place
The new clinic is downtown and open to all. The combination of mass shootings and the continual assaults on women’s access to reproductive health care hit home a few weeks ago, when I attended the grand opening of the new Planned Parenthood office in downtown...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 18, 2019 | Living in Place
A Symbol of Migration “Support Immigrants” poster by Luis Rafael Thanks to a reader of Milkweed & Monarchs, I learned that Monarchs and Migration go way beyond the butterflies themselves. Monarchs have become symbols of migration, and twenty-two year...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 4, 2019 | Living in Place
I’m obsessed with milkweed and Monarchs: a Monarch caterpillar on a milkweed plant. I’m obsessed with milkweed and Monarchs these days, and keep checking wild milkweed, hunting for hungry caterpillars. Of course I read Eric Carle’s The Hungry Caterpillar to my...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 29, 2019 | Living in Place
In 2014 I started an Author Page on Facebook, considered necessary for marketing my work. Facebook for Marketing I opened my first Facebook account in 2010, as a marketing tool when Into the Wilderness, came out. In those early days of social media, Facebook didn’t...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 21, 2019 | Living in Place
First Female Crew in Whitbread Race Maiden tells the story of the first all-female crew to sail in the Whitbread Around the World Race in 1989/90. Skippered by Tracy Edwards, the women didn’t just complete the race, nor did they just win two of the most difficult...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 14, 2019 | Living in Place
My cell phone’s ringer sounds just like the black wall phone that hung in the kitchen of my childhood, the one I learned to dial by standing on a chair. Phone Etiquette When I was tall enough, I answered it the way we’d learned in third grade – from a textbook...
