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Deborah Lee Luskin

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Vermonters by Choice

Profile: Ian Goodnow

January 29, 2020 Deborah Lee Luskin

Candidate for Brattleboro Selectboard Brattleboro residents have a chance to bring a fresh perspective to the Select board by electing Ian Goodnow, a young, committed, energetic and thoughtful member of the community. #lovebrattleborovt Ian fell in love with Brattleboro before #lovebrattleboro was a hashtag, and he fell in love with my daughter Ruth ten years […]

Living in Place, Vermonters by Choice

Cindy Leszczak Grows Tomatoes!

May 22, 2019 Deborah Lee Luskin

Cindy Leszczak grows tomatoes – about two thousand of them. What was once a way to grow enough to feed her family during a long winter has become a passion for what she calls, “Jewels you can eat.” This year, Cindy’s filled her greenhouse with one-hundred-and-one different varieties, “like the Dalmations,” she says, as if […]

Living in Place, Vermonters by Choice

Conversation with Walter Slowinski at Orchard Street Pottery

May 23, 2018 Deborah Lee Luskin

Walter Slowinski

“Conversation” is a word potter Walter Slowinski uses a lot – especially in conversation about pottery. I recently made two visits to Orchard Street Pottery: first to witness the firing of the wood kiln and again to see the pots after they’d been fired. During the firing, there wasn’t a lot of time for talk. […]

Living in Place, Vermonters by Choice

Vermonter By Choice: Tim Shafer, Country Doctor

August 30, 2017 Deborah Lee Luskin

Tim Shafer, MD

Tim Shafer moved to Vermont in 1984 to serve as a National Health Service Corps physician in a medically underserved area. After completing his residency in Pennsylvania, he wanted to return to New England, where he’d grown up and where he’d attended medical school. He’s lived in the West River Valley ever since. Practicing rural […]

Living in Place, Vermonters by Choice

Vermonter By Choice: Anne Black & The Warrior Connection

June 14, 2017 Deborah Lee Luskin

The Warrior Connection

Vermonters By Choice is an occasional column about people who, like Ethan Allen, came to Vermont from away. After living in Vermont for the past thirty years, Anne Black says, “I don’t want to live anywhere else.” It’s a place that she finds both profoundly spiritual and creative – two key elements in her life’s […]

Vermonters by Choice

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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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    • Rosefire Revision Circle
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