by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 2, 2019 | Living in Place
Affirmations, Not Resolutions I used to celebrate New Year’s Eve in the accepted and conventional manner: I’d stay up till midnight, fortify my resolve with champagne, and vow to live cleaner, work harder, and sustain a calm, orderly, life. I’d make...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 28, 2018 | Living in Place
One year ends, another starts; the end is where we start from. The things that ended in in my life 2018: My father’s death in July was the end of a long life. His death changed my day-to-day world: the end of spending afternoons with him, taking him to appointments,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 19, 2018 | Living in Place
After ten-days of guests and feasts at Thanksgiving, I declared this a no-Christmas year and thought I’d glide through the December Doldrums with full sails. But anticipating losing my wind isn’t the same as avoiding it, and yesterday I found myself becalmed....
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 12, 2018 | Living in Place
GIVING LOCALLY My husband and I have come to believe in giving locally, because the closer to home we give, the further our money goes. Each year brings us up close and personal with both our shared values and our good fortune as we decide how to allocate our...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 29, 2018 | Living in Place
The average age at our Thanksgiving table plummeted from 73 last year to 29 this. That’s a whopping drop of forty-four years – an entire generation, and then some. We had seventeen guests both years, though obviously not the same ones. Becoming an Elder Last year, my...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 21, 2018 | Living in Place
Right To Play is a guest post by Naomi Shafer, the Executive Director of Clowns Without Borders – USA and appears here with permission. Please go to the original post to see photos and to learn more about CWB, an organization that brings laughter where...
