Letter from the managing editor
September 4, 2009 by Erika Stutzman
Filed under Letters from the Editors, Perspective
A love letter, to fall:
Offering cool respite from a season of heat, autumn arrives like a gift.
Not that I’m complaining. Not at all. The summer was warm, but the long sunny days offered me more time for adventure and fun. And a few early summer storms excluded, the healthy amount of rain and clear cool nights made for one awesome Colorado summer. One for the books, really.
But fall has always beckoned to me. Maybe it’s the book nerd in me: I was one of those children and young adults who was thrilled at the start of each new school year. A chance to learn new things and meet new people, and frankly: Fall in love. I was always falling in love, in the fall. I still am, only it’s with the same person now, year after year.
Maybe it’s the fashionista in me. You can only do so much with T-shirts and shorts. Fall means beautiful sweaters, big vintage jewelry that would make you sweat under summer’s swelter, and boots, boots and more boots.
Maybe it’s the homebody in me. The pressure to spend sunny days constantly out-of-doors slowly dissolves as the sun sets earlier these days. Dusk is the perfect time to cook up wonderful meals for friends, or snuggle up with my children and some books on the couch. An unexpectedly hot morning will send us barreling outside, looking for one last gasp of summer to soak up and savor until next year.
What’s not to love?
— Erika
erika@womensmag.com
