by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 5, 2017 | Living in Place
When I don’t know what I want to say, when I want to go deeper into an idea, and when I want to clear my mind, I turn to automatic writing. WRITING PRACTICE In automatic writing, also called psychography, writers put words on the page without the editorial filter. The...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 29, 2017 | Living in Place
Thanksgiving 2017 by the numbers: Between Sunday, November 19, when the first relatives arrived from California, to Sunday, November 25, when the last visitors departed after lunch, we Prepared and served 58 dinners Entertained 25 different visitors Put up twelve...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 22, 2017 | Living in Place
One of the wonderful things about Living in Place is hosting the Destination Thanksgiving every year. My nearest and dearest arrive by train, plane and automobile while I strategize arrival times, sleeping arrangements, and menus. Of all the menus, Thanksgiving dinner...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 21, 2017 | Living in Place
I originally wrote My Plymouth Rock for Thanksgiving, 2007. It’s becoming a Thanksgiving tradition to republish it, because I think it’s important for all Americans to remember how most of us arrived here. I first learned about the Pilgrims in 1963, when I...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 15, 2017 | Living in Place
Stick Season begins the day the gingko tree drops its leaves, marking the transition from autumn foliage to late fall. While it’s the blazing foliage that gets all the press, and the flaming maples that offer nature’s great photo ops, stick season’s underappreciated...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 8, 2017 | Living in Place
On Monday, after a weekend when both Tim and I worked, we drove to Boston and visited the MFA. Tim drove while I read him another installment of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, by Kory Stamper, a book that continues to delight us in its erudition and...
