by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 1, 2018 | Living in Place
When I moved to Vermont in 1984, one of the two things I missed most about New York City was the movies. I especially missed the revival houses where I’d watched Fred Astaire dancing in black and white, and Technicolor classics like Rear Window and Ben-Hur. By the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 21, 2018 | Living in Place
When Winter Gives You Lemons . . . Make Lemon Curd Lemons don’t grow in Vermont in the winter – or any other time of the year. Not much grows in Vermont during the winter – not when they’re cold and snowy. Sure, there’s a traditional and mostly predictable January...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 20, 2018 | Living in Place
I first learned about Scrivener, a program to help writers organize long-form projects, from a post by J.A. Hennrikus, right here on Live to Write, Write to Live. A few months later, she posted again about Scrivener, this time about taking a course about how to use...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 14, 2018 | Living in Place
You don’t have to suffer on Valentine’s Day. Really. Trust me on this. Expectation, it’s said, is the source of all suffering, and greeting card manufacturers, chocolatiers, jewelers, and florists would all have you believe that you are unloved – and possibly even...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 7, 2018 | Living in Place
This past weekend, I became acutely aware how I’m slowing down in middle age. We’d driven to Brooklyn to visit Naomi and Sam. It’s a drive I did weekly for the year and a half I commuted from Vermont to New York, packing teaching, research and psychotherapy into the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 6, 2018 | Living in Place
It’s clear from the many comments I received after my last post about semi-colons, that a review of clauses and conjunctions would be helpful. CLAUSES Clauses are a group of words that do a writer’s bidding. It’s important to be able to differentiate between the two...
