by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 29, 2012 | Living in Place
WRITING SHORT I’m used to writing short. A radio commentary runs five hundred words; an editorial column, about a thousand; a post to this blog somewhere in-between. One of my best-paying jobs requires turning a thirty-minute interview into four hundred and fifty...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 15, 2012 | Living in Place
In addition to my self-assigned task of drafting a novel, and the pen-for-hire work I do for a major medical center, I write five essays a month: two posts for this blog, two Commentaries for Vermont Public Radio, and a column for The Commons, my local,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 1, 2012 | Living in Place
The other morning, I received an email from one of my readers. It began, “I just read your novel Into The Wilderness and I absolutely loved it as I really connected with it.” This reader explained how she grew up in New York City and was now married to a man from New...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 17, 2012 | Living in Place
I have not been writing a poem a week as I tasked myself in Cross Training, nor have I met the goal I set in my Bylines Calendar of writing a chapter a month. If I wanted to grind to a complete halt, I could trip over these “failures,” wallow in chocolate, and stop...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Apr 3, 2012 | Living in Place
When I was working out in the world and raising a family, I was automatically connected to other people. I volunteered at the kids’ school, baked brownies, chaperoned field trips, and helped raise the next generation. My work in a medical office connected me not only...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 20, 2012 | Living in Place
When I lived alone in Manhattan, a married friend with three sons once said to me, “Enjoy your solitude.” I did. But I was lonely, too. Later, in Vermont, waiting in line to be seated at a diner with my three young children while my husband was working, a different...
