by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 11, 2012 | Living in Place
My middle child is a playwright. If I were a responsible parent, I’d probably discourage her from pursuing a career in the arts, unless she were to go into arts management, where she could be regularly underpaid instead of intermittently so. Because face...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 27, 2012 | Living in Place
It’s November twenty-seventh, meaning including today there are just four more days to finish the NaNoWriMo challenge of writing a 50,000-word novel in one short month. As of this morning, I’m at 42,452, so it’s nip-and-tuck whether I’ll cross the finish...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 13, 2012 | Living in Place
Rather than wait until New Year’s Eve, when it’s too late to do anything about the year’s unmet goals, I took stock at the end of October. Despite grand ideas of writing a poem a week this year, I haven’t. In fact, I forgot about that resolution until I reviewed my...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 30, 2012 | Living in Place
Regular Live to Write – Write to Live blogger Deborah Lee Luskin wrote Most Improved Writing Student earlier this month. . Here’s a guest post by that student, Daniel Chamovitz, author of What A Plant Knows . . I don’t consider myself an author; I am a...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 16, 2012 | Living in Place
My mother died last month. Her death was long anticipated and when it finally came, something of a relief. But losing a parent is one of life’s great transitions, moving the next generation closer to the front line of death. As expected as my mom’s death was, it also...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 2, 2012 | Living in Place
In 1982, while a graduate student at Columbia University, I taught Introduction to Freshman Composition, a remedial course for bright but inarticulate young men just entering the college. (Columbia was still all-male back then.) I’d never taken Freshman Composition of...
