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Deborah Lee Luskin

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The Middle Ages

Brushing My Teeth With My Eyes Closed

January 30, 2019 Deborah Lee Luskin

Brushing my teeth

I can brush my teeth with my eyes closed, and I can brush my teeth while standing on one leg, but brushing my teeth with my eyes closed while standing on one leg is proving a challenge. Why, you might ask, would I even try? It was my assignment on Day Two of The New […]

Living in Place, The Middle Ages

Average Age at Thanksgiving Plummets

November 29, 2018 Deborah Lee Luskin

Average Age

The average age at our Thanksgiving table plummeted from 73 last year to 29 this. That’s a whopping drop of forty-four years – an entire generation, and then some. We had seventeen guests both years, though obviously not the same ones. Becoming an Elder Last year, my then ninety-two year old father was still with […]

Living in Place, The Middle Ages

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

August 15, 2018 Deborah Lee Luskin

Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant is New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s graphic memoir about caring for her elderly parents as they resisted the help that they needed and that their middle-aged daughter was at initially clueless to provide. Providing that care requires some tricky role-reversal, and Chast has a hard time convincing her […]

Living in Place, The Middle Ages

Lessons in Grief

August 8, 2018 Deborah Lee Luskin

Lessons in Grief

LESSONS IN GRIEF While my Dad was alive and in decline, I grieved for the man he used to be. He mostly accepted his limitations, while I was often irritated by them. Now I wish I’d acknowledged how plucky he was in his old age, even as his hearing diminished, his eyesight faded, his memory […]

Living in Place, The Middle Ages

Mourning Fog

August 1, 2018 Deborah Lee Luskin

MOURNING FOG

MOURNING FOG My father died almost two weeks ago, and I’ve been wandering around in a Mourning Fog ever since. Even though Dad’s death was expected, and even though I’d suffered innumerable bouts of anticipatory grief as Dad has declined these past few years, being present at Dad’s last breath has unmoored me. Now that […]

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Deborah Lee Luskin, Writer

Deborah Lee Luskin is a writer by vocation and a Vermonter by choice. Into the Wilderness is her first published novel. Deborah is a skilled writer, talented teacher, eagle-eyed editor and entertaining public speaker. Contact Deborah with information about your project to find out how she can help you.


 

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