by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 28, 2015 | Living in Place
I like to experience other places through the concept of home by living in place somewhere else when I travel. I’m just back from ten days in San Francisco, where I enjoyed a D-I-Y Writing Residency punctuated by visits with family and friends. I holed up in my...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 21, 2015 | Living in Place
One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, replacing the Newtonian theory that gravity was a force inside the earth with the idea that gravity is imprinted in the geometry of the universe. Try as I might to understand the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 20, 2015 | Living in Place
For creative types with demanding day jobs and hectic lives, a writing residency can offer much needed sustained quiet in which to work. My brother, a videographer by day and a playwright by night, is just such a creative who’s ceaselessly busy, if not with work or...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 14, 2015 | Living in Place
Vermont has long been a refuge for writers like my neighbor Vincent Panella, a Vermonter By Choice, who says that Vermont allows him the quiet and solitude he needs to write.Even though he lives in Vermont, he often writes about Queens, where he was born to parents,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 7, 2015 | Living in Place
Every fall, even people who aren’t birders make the annual pilgrimage to the top of Putney Mountain, where they watch the charismatic avifauna migrate south along the West and Connecticut River flyways. Up there, a group of regulars keep count of the red tails,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 6, 2015 | Living in Place
I recently met one goal and learned two lessons. One of my goals for 2015 was to update my Curriculum Vitae – or CV – an expanded resume of my published work and professional experiences and accomplishments. In January, I started listing every single book,...
