by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 3, 2017 | Living in Place
Last Friday, we enjoyed a supper of all local food, some foraged, some farmed. FORAGED Tim’s co-worker Holly spent her lunch hour down by the river and returned to the office with a bucket full of fiddleheads and ramps. She sent a generous supply home with Tim. These...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 2, 2017 | Living in Place
Guest Post by Novelist Donna D. Vitucci The answer to my question, How long does it take to write a book? is fifteen for the novelist Donna Vitucci, who has just published Salt of Patriots after fifteen years of research, writing and revision. In this guest post,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 26, 2017 | Living in Place
Spring here is slow, steady and sweet. SLOW The slow procession of the season, from dirty snow to sparkling green pasture, breeds patience. Sweetness is the reward. First, sap rises from the ground, then steam from the sugarhouse, yielding amber syrup: the blood of...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 20, 2017 | Living in Place
I recently completed the three stops to website revision: Procrastination, New Headshot, Revised Content. Procrastination I’ve needed to revise the Writing Services section of my website for almost two years. During the previous iteration, I called myself a...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 19, 2017 | Living in Place
Following the trail across roads, over ski areas, and through towns was harder than hiking through the woods. ROADS We’d only been on the trail about twenty-four hours when we came to our first road crossing. We heard the road well before we stepped out of the woods...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 12, 2017 | Living in Place
HEARING LOSS IS INVISIBLE. It’s easy for me to avoid the wrinkles, bumps and bulges of middle age by not looking in the mirror; it’s harder to avoid hearing loss, which is invisible. I’ve known for a long time that hearing loss was in my future, and not just because I...
