Fall is the time to get things done!

The leaves are falling from the trees, plants are dying, and everything is shutting down. It feels like an ending - and it is - but it's also a time for new beginnings!

From a seasonal point of view, fall is the beginning of the end. The days get shorter. the nights get colder. Everything starts to die - and the very end of fall occurs at the shortest day of the year - which is, from a certain point of view - the death of the sun. This all sounds bleak and depressing, but I have always felt energized in the fall.

Like most people, I went to school - but I went to school for a long, long time. I started school in 1977, finished high school in 1990, finished university in 2003 - and then I taught in universities for years - so for a very large part of my my life, fall would be the beginning of the academic year. As a result, it has always been a time to turn over a new leaf, to re-invent myself, to set new goals and think big.