HAPPY FALL DEAR READERS! 

Tis the season for all things Autumn as leaves turn crunchy and the breeze calls for a fleece. It's new notebooks and Pumas, back to school and backpacks, wellies and lunch boxes. As we prep for the pre-holiday holidays, I look forward to picking pumpkins with the little one, decorating our house and of course walking extra blocks to prepare for November feasting.

Teaching in the Fall is my favorite. Students are crashing from Summer yet still a bit buoyed by feeling the surf and sand envelop them for so many lazy days. They prep for shopping in NYC and fashion gets a turbo boost as boots are sported and skinny jeans sashay down 5th Ave. The city is alive with twinkles of anticipation as holiday items grace shelves and the ice rink is built at Bryant Park. It's the time when we all count how many paychecks till New Years and vote for our favorite things of this one. The season is elation. It is pompoms on ice skates shined and sharpened. It is scarves and my favorite neff beanie and sauntering miles of city without the sunburn.

Writing Fall is perhaps the most powerful time--for me and for many. There is so much change and though it may seem like trees are going to rest and the green turns brown, it's also cider and donuts and hay and mums. It's hot chocolate and toddys and cinnamon spice everything. Though the people may slow to a crawl breathing deep the air before storms, this is a time of gratitude. We are thankful for the busy season at work, the breather betwixt hot and cold, and everything else that comes with the clarity of now.

Projects abound for us all. Here is my most recent ALIKE BUT INDIE for Big Little Lies. Enjoy and let me know if you have suggestions for Autumnal pages--the very best kind to indulge in!

Peace and PSL,

Keri

xo