Deborah Lee Luskin
CommentatorDeborah Lee Luskin is a writer, speaker and educator.
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A few years ago, as I was leaving a doctor鈥檚 office, an elderly gentleman was pushing an older woman up the handicapped ramp. I held the outer door open,鈥�
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A few weeks ago when lightning struck Valley Cares, an assisted living facility in Townshend, the residents and staff executed their well-practiced鈥�
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Thirty-Six Miles Of Trouble is the title of a slim and entertaining history of the West River Railroad that once operated between Brattleboro and South鈥�
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Last year, I was picking berries, when I heard a car skid and crash on the road by my house.Expecting the worst, I ran to the scene but found a single鈥�
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When the town of Newfane celebrated its centennial in 1874, the Federal style courthouse, the steepled Congregational Church, and the Newfane Inn were鈥�
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I was born during the heyday of the agricultural use of DDT, so I didn鈥檛 see my first bald eagle until twenty-two years after the pesticide was banned.It鈥�
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I attended college during an era of feminist activism, when non-sexist language meant not using the word man when we meant human. The Handbook of鈥�
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When a recent commentary about the need for intelligent and empathetic discussions about vaccines by Abby Mnookin ended with a plea to 鈥渞elearn how to鈥�
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Not long ago, I received a private message on Facebook from a woman who鈥檇 once been my best friend, but with whom I hadn鈥檛 spoken in thirty years.鈥淐all鈥�
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Since last year鈥檚 Town Meeting, I鈥檝e been called to the polls twice for special elementary school votes, once for a special article about a Town Charter,鈥�