by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 6, 2017 | Living in Place
“Language is one of the few common experiences humanity has.” So begins the Preface to Kory Stamper’s wonderful memoir, Word By Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries. Hanging on Stamper’s personal narrative about how she came to be a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 31, 2017 | Living in Place
OUTSIDE IN THE WMNF I was one of the approximately six hundred and twenty-five thousand visitors forecast to visit New Hampshire over the holiday weekend. I went to climb North and South Hancock, two of New Hampshire’s high peaks. We drove about two and a half...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 24, 2017 | Living in Place
Change is good. For thirty-nine years, I didn’t attend a college reunion, and then last weekend, I did. I went because I promised my college housemates I would go, so I kept my word and went. The irony is: no one from this cohort attended, though the one who lives...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 18, 2017 | Living in Place
Tonight, I’ll be giving an informal commencement address thanking the students who’ve participated in the memoir-writing class I’ve been teaching at the Moore Free Library for the past twelve weeks. This is what I’ll say: Thank you for your courage to show up...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 17, 2017 | Living in Place
The good news for those of us in middle age is the mounting evidence that regular, cardiovascular exercise can delay and possibly prevent the memory loss associated with aging; all we have to do is sweat. You’d have to be living under a rock not to know that aerobic...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 10, 2017 | Living in Place
I love being a mother, and I hate Mother’s Day While I was pregnant with our first child, friends, family and strangers assured me I could write while the baby slept. And I believed them. After all, I’d already navigated graduate school and wrote a...
