by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 1, 2015 | Living in Place
Spring Came Late is 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. Spring is arriving...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 31, 2015 | Living in Place
As nice as it is to enjoy casual dress every day of the week and labor in solitude behind a computer, there are times that require a writer to get dressed, leave home and speak in public. I will be doing this next week. Washing my face and finding clean clothes aside,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 25, 2015 | Living in Place
As Vermont’s ski areas morphed into Destination Resorts, I gave up downhill skiing for cross-country; as cross-country skiing developed around groomed trails at Nordic ski centers, I stepped out of the tracks and went backcountry skiing. The Green Mountain National...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 18, 2015 | Living in Place
Vermont is a place of many seasons, and one of my favorites is Sugaring, when maple sap is harvested and boiled down to syrup. Sugaring season falls somewhere between winter and mud season – another of Vermont’s many seasons, and another precursor to Vermont’s long,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 17, 2015 | Living in Place
As the first quarter of the year comes to a close, it’s time to review where I am with the three goals I set at the start of the year while I’m between books: launching my blog, increasing my work-for-pay, and completing some necessary administrative tasks. I’ve been...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 11, 2015 | Living in Place
In the deep of winter, my husband carries the amaryllis bulbs up from the basement. They arrive upstairs looking like nothing more than pots of dirt. Just as it seems as if winter will never end, it also looks as if the bulbs will never sprout. They appear dead; that...
