by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 3, 2016 | Living in Place
On Groundhog Day, I checked the news before I checked the weather. After months of political forecasting, I was more interested in what had happened in Iowa than what was going to happen in Punxsutawney, PA. Besides, weather and politics are local, and no matter...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 27, 2016 | Living in Place
With this year’s paucity of cold and snow in southern Vermont, I’ve had to adjust my tactics for winter survival. As Bernd Heinrich explains in Winter World: The Ingenuity Of Animal Survival, “A large part of adapting to the winter world involves creating a suitable...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 26, 2016 | Living in Place
I needed an image of a Renaissance self portrait for a recent post on my blog, but having made an expensive mistake once, I’ve become hyper vigilant about sourcing free images. In my search for digital images I could use free and clear, I made two discoveries worth...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 20, 2016 | Living in Place
The art of self-portraiture has advanced significantly since the Middle Ages, from panel portraits by European artists in the fifteenth century to high-resolution videos of internal organs of middle aged Americans in the twenty-first.Not content even with the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 13, 2016 | Living in Place
Recently, I’ve been attending retirement parties with the frequency I once attended weddings. Unlike weddings, however, these parties have been lighthearted, informal and fun. They’ve been free of the anxieties about the future, finances, fertility and fidelity –...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 12, 2016 | Living in Place
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about staying inspired. I’m not talking about finding ideas, characters, plots, essay topics or images for poems, but encouragement to keep writing and affirmation that writing is well worth the effort. I’m talking about staying...
