by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 11, 2024 | Living in Place
I Wasn’t Gonna Go I never intended to drive 150 miles to Totality during Monday’s solar eclipse, not when I read that 200,000 people were expected to flood the parts of northern Vermont that would go dark. I thought 97% dark in my own back yard would be enough....
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 14, 2024 | Living in Place
Air Travel is All Indoors On a recent trip to visit family in Montana, I spent twelve hours traveling there. Except for the minute it took to say goodbye to Tim at the airport, I spent all that time indoors: in a car, in an airport, and on a plane. My return trip was...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 1, 2024 | Living in Place
Sunday’s wet snow stuck to every twig, branch and tree. . . . Flock Together The snow that fell overnight Sunday into Monday stuck to every twig, branch, and tree like wet plaster, turning the landscape into a frosted landscape. Thanks to windless conditions,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 18, 2024 | Living in Place
Every Day Outdoors, 1/17/24 “Bright, white daylight. Insinuating wind. Skiing across the fields, both sweating and chilled. It feels as if winter has finally arrived.” I broke a ski trail across the fields outside my back door yesterday. Glorious. I plan...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 10, 2024 | Living in Place
In mid-December, I had this idea to go outside every day, no matter the time, no matter the weather. It wasn’t to do anything in particular, except to be outdoors, feel the air in my lungs and on my face, taste the weather, attune myself to the natural world. Wary of...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 29, 2023 | Living in Place
Christmas Day Hike on Black Mountain With no snow on the ground, we decided on a Christmas Day hike up Black Mountain. It’s a short, five-and-a-half mile loop to 1,250 feet just six miles from home, and in all these years, we’d never hiked it. We’d always opted for...
