Living In Place
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Deborah Lee Luskin Writer, Speaker, Educator
- Old Love Story – New Edition
by Deborah Lee Luskin on February 11, 2026 at 4:47 pmLiving in Place
- Halfway Between Winter & Spring
by Deborah Lee Luskin on February 4, 2026 at 4:02 pmLIving in Place
- A Septuagenarian Writes: Life is Good
by Deborah Lee Luskin on January 28, 2026 at 4:57 pmLiving in Place
- Writing Letters
by Deborah Lee Luskin on January 21, 2026 at 4:45 pmLiving in Place
- PART 5: ERASE CHALK
by Deborah Lee Luskin on January 14, 2026 at 4:56 pmLIVING IN PLACE
- PART 4: DRIVE LESS, COOK MORE, SPEND TIME OUTDOORS
by Deborah Lee Luskin on January 7, 2026 at 4:49 pmLIVING IN PLACE
Blog
The Tables Have Turned
With Dad, New Year's Eve, c. 2014. “Did I ever tell you about the day after you were born?” I asked my youngest as we headed out to lunch. “I was so euphoric. I knew all my...
The Carbon Footprint of Food
Aside from being both quick and delicious, I love that Soup of White Beans and Winter Greens has a fairly low carbon footprint, especially now that I can grow greens in my...
Soup of White Beans and Winter Greens
The Batavian endive I’m growing in the greenhouse is not the pale-leafed head shaped like a torpedo, but something more akin to leafy escarole, which would be a great substitute....
Greenhouse Greens
The ground is frozen, and the gardens put to bed, but I’m still harvesting greens and herbs from the greenhouse. A greenhouse was never part of the plan. A wood-fired pizza oven...
Writing to the Light, Again.
I like to start my day in the dark. It’s quiet time, when I practice a morning meditation with my pen. There’s something safe about these pre-dawn hours, before the world wakes,...
The Animal Adventurer’s Guide
How to Prowl for an Owl, Make Snail Slime, and Catch a Frog bare-handed. Nature as a Foreign Land Like many suburban-raised kids, I grew up as if Nature was a foreign land....