by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 6, 2017 | Living in Place
My kids introduced me to the smooth brew of coffee made in an AeroPress, so I bought one. It’s a simple device consisting of three inscrutable pieces of plastic that defy both intuition and logic. To use it, I googled, How to brew coffee in an AeroPress? In just six...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 28, 2017 | Living in Place
Much to my own disbelief, I’m planning to complete Vermont’s Long Trail for the second time in two years. This sounds more outlandish than it actually is. Unlike last year’s end-to-end hike from Massachusetts to Canada in twenty-five days, this year, I’m going...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 22, 2017 | Living in Place
What to do when words fail to come? It happens sometimes. Yesterday morning, in fact. I had a post due on Living In Place, and I didn’t have anything to say. Worse, my brain was foggy, possibly due to the antihistamine I succumbed to the night before. Or maybe it’s my...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 21, 2017 | Living in Place
On this Summer Solstice, I’ve dug into my archives for Hum Time, an essay that appeared in July/August issue of Vermont Magazine in 1992, when the world was young and green. HUM TIME Hail the Summer Solstice! It’s the longest day of the year, the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 14, 2017 | Living in Place
Vermonters By Choice is an occasional column about people who, like Ethan Allen, came to Vermont from away. After living in Vermont for the past thirty years, Anne Black says, “I don’t want to live anywhere else.” It’s a place that she finds both profoundly spiritual...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 7, 2017 | Living in Place
This isn’t the post I’d planned for today, and you could blame the weather. It stopped raining long enough over the weekend that I weeded the garden. And then it rained again, hard and cold. I fired up the woodstoves both in my studio and the house, and cooked hearty...
