by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 27, 2018 | Living in Place
GUEST POST This guest post is by author and colleague Bill Schubart, who gives a brief, long view of the publishing industry’s transformation from Twentieth-century traditional publishing to today’s many options. He ends with good advice to...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 21, 2018 | Living in Place
My father’s fond of saying, “Old skiers don’t die; they just go downhill.” He skied into his eighties, and he’s sliding toward ninety-three this year. He learned to ski in his forties, and we became a skiing family, spending a week on the slopes of Mount Mansfield...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 20, 2018 | Living in Place
Here’s an exercise that will help you learn the power of verbs. See if you can make the following paragraph more interesting by changing the verbs. Challenge yourself to show this narrator either speeding through her day or dragging through it by the verbs you choose....
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 14, 2018 | Living in Place
I’m a gun owner who believes there’s a way to think about gun safety that protects second amendment rights without forcing Americans to give up the domestic tranquility as promised in the Preamble to the Constitution. Arming school teachers is not the answer. When I...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 7, 2018 | Living in Place
The Town Moderator Speaks Yesterday was Town Meeting Day in Vermont, and I’m Town Moderator in Newfane. As I have been doing for the last decade, I take care to set the tone with my opening remarks. What follows is an abbreviated version of this year’s Civic Homily....
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 6, 2018 | Living in Place
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: There are three general ways to use a colon: to introduce a list; to separate numerals in references and time; and to separate a title from a sub-title. ONE: Introducing a List The sentence above is...
