by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 28, 2015 | Living in Place
When opportunity knocks – open the door! As a direct result of Speaking in Public, I’ve been offered the opportunity to teach a graduate-level writing course at Marlboro College Graduate School. While open to any graduate student, the course is aimed at educators from...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 22, 2015 | Living in Place
If I’m lucky, I might still have a third of my life left in the tank, so I’m annoyed that I squander so much of this time searching for my keys. Whenever I can’t find them, I have painfully memories of laughing at my mother, whose every sortie from wherever she was...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 15, 2015 | Living in Place
Losing a tooth at age six is exciting; losing one at age sixty is not. At age six, the tooth-gapped smile is a sign of maturity. Those front teeth, once the suspected source of infant irritability, are celebrated as they wiggle free. At six, the improbable saw-toothed...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 14, 2015 | Living in Place
What a difference a day makes! Sunday, the sun shone, the snow receded like an outgoing tide. Hundreds of robins landed to inspect the newly revealed field. Between morning and night, the garden gate was liberated from...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 14, 2015 | Living in Place
I’ve been learning to tweet for months now, and I’m still not sure why. For a Friday Fun post back in 2011, NHWN bloggers answered the question, Love It or Hate It? Three loved Twitter, three were less thrilled, and I wasn’t on board. Now I am. I decided to join when...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 8, 2015 | Living in Place
Here’s Spring Came Late, Part Two – an excerpt from my not-yet-published novel Elegy for a Girl, a heartbreaking love story between Mary Grace “Girl” Knight and her father, Harlan, whose hill-farm is bisected by construction of the new interstate highway in 1958....
