by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 26, 2025 | Living in Place
I used to be able to buy bras in a town twelve miles from my home. The store was an outlet, with huge inventory, low ambiance, and kind matrons who helped me to a good fit. “Over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders,” we called the barely-there bras we wore in seventh grade,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 30, 2025 | Living in Place
Despite living in rural Vermont—a place of great natural beauty and seasonal changes—I had slipped into a workaholic life that was keeping me indoors, except when I took Leo, my dog, for a walk. We’d be two miles up a hill before I even looked up from the gravel under...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 15, 2023 | Living in Place
Vermont Almanac: Stories From & For the Land, Volume IV, contains another wonderful collection of stories, information, artwork, recipes, odd corners of Vermont history, and a chronicle of last year’s weather. With fifty-nine contributing writers, the book sings...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 15, 2020 | Living in Place
I hope this post finds you as well as can be under the present circumstances of pandemic, political and social unrest, and economic challenges. And despite all this, I hope you are writing. Vermont Almanac I have been so engrossed in learning to hunt whitetail deer...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 9, 2016 | Living in Place
When anyone on the Long Trail asked me where I was heading last summer, I always said, “Canada.” One man replied, “Before the election?” This was in late August. I’d been on the trail for two weeks, and I’d forgotten about the election. At Sterling Lake, we spoke with...
