by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 14, 2018 | Living in Place
VERMONT’S POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE Vermont has a reputation for its political independence. Vermont never voted for four-term president Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the Vermont legislature declared war on Germany on September 16, 1941, before Pearl Harbor; and the Vermont...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 9, 2018 | Living in Place
Now that the election and all its distractions are over, perhaps we can turn our attention to the rise of domestic terrorism, which struck again the day after the election in Thousand Oaks, California. There have been over three hundred mass shootings in the United...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 31, 2018 | Living in Place
HIAS, PITTSBURGH, BIRTHRIGHT & THE RULE OF LAW HOW HIAS HELPED MY FAMILY My father’s father came to the United States to avoid being drafted into the Czar’s army for a second time. He’d already served in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, and he feared being...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 30, 2018 | Living in Place
GOODBYE Dear Readers: This is my last post for Live to Write – Write to Live. It has been deeply gratifying to post my thoughts about the business and craft of writing here every other week for almost eight years. I have enjoyed sharing my knowledge, my successes and...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 25, 2018 | Living in Place
I’ve spent the last three weeks arguing about the word “grandfather.” VPR v. VT DIGGER Vermont Public Radio found the word “grandfather” too specific and VT DIGGER didn’t think it was specific enough. Both media outlets refused to broadcast/publish the piece as I...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 17, 2018 | Living in Place
THANK YOU I’m so grateful to my readers for the outpouring of support in response to the publication of He Was My Grandfather, my story of being silenced for telling my story of childhood sexual abuse. The response has been as astounding as it’s been affirming. I...
