by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 7, 2015 | Living in Place
Before I can make the hundred-foot dash from my back door to my desk, I perform morning chores. These chores follow breakfast, which comes after an hour of writing by hand before dawn. In winter, my first task is to heat my studio, a jewel-box of a room with six...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 6, 2015 | Living in Place
Turning the calendar to a new year is always an opportunity to establish new and improved organizing systems of all kinds. Over the years, I’ve developed a few of my own, from celebrating Boxing Day by boxing up the year’s receipts to cleaning up my computer by...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 4, 2015 | Living in Place
In a typical Vermont winter, there’s a fleeting moment of good ice, for skating. Yesterday was it. Good ice depends on cold weather and no snow. Good skating years occur when winter snaps the water shut. Last year, winter arrived in late January with wonderful, deep,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 31, 2014 | Living in Place
Living in Place allows me to collect and store every scrap of paper that comes through my door. No matter how much junk mail I recycle at the PO or how many bills I pay on-line, papers still seep into the house and pile up on my desk like so much silt after a storm....
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 24, 2014 | Living in Place
Long-time readers of this blog know that I’ve spent the last three years researching, writing and rewriting Ellen, a novel. I showed it to my agent twice along the way, and knew she had reservations about the premise, main character, time period and tone. I wrote the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 17, 2014 | Living in Place
Despite all the festivities with lights, parties, and gifts, the darkest days of the year can be emotionally trying up here in the north, where the sun rises late and sets early. In my recent radio commentary, The Dark of the Year, I reveal two of my secrets for...
