by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 1, 2023 | Living in Place
We have snow! Tim and I took time off to ski: Four days, forty kilometers, four hundred sore muscles. The sign of a good vacation is finding returning to my desk restful. Happy times! It’s a 60-second walk from the house to my desk in the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 25, 2023 | Living in Place
Volume Three is now available Vermont Almanac: Stories from and for the Land, Volume Three, includes stories, essays, poetry and information by and about Vermont and Vermonters, both past and present. With more than 72 contributing artists and writers, Vermont Almanac...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 18, 2023 | Living in Place
Missing Winter Sports I once vowed I’d never to a gym, not if I could snap on my skis to tour the field or buckle on my snowshoes and head up the hill. But there’s been negligible snow that–instead of piling up in pillows of drifts–has hardened after the...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 11, 2023 | Living in Place
Social Connections & Happiness Leaving Twitter made not one iota of difference to my social network, but completing this year’s Happiness Challenge certainly did. The Happiness Challenge, published in the New York Times wellness newsletter, posits that happiness...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 4, 2023 | Living in Place
We are not promised tomorrow Be kind today. We are not promised tomorrow Pay your debts, forgive those owed you. We are not promised tomorrow Don’t delay, do it now. We are not promised tomorrow Cross everything that doesn’t matter off your list. We are not promised...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 29, 2022 | Living in Place
To tweet, or not to tweet, that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the long run to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous egos, Or to take steps against their stream of cackles And by quitting, end them? To leave for silence, No more; and in that silence will...
