How’ve you been these past few months? Has your life drastically transformed? Did you move across the country, win an award, fall in love? Did you get a puppy? Hire a life coach? Go back to school? Start a new job?
Maybe your time has been occupied with less dramatic pursuits: have you listened to an absurd number of podcasts on an obscure topic? Perfected your method for cooking rice without a rice cooker? Discovered that leggings can and should be worn as pants with no shame or regret?
For me, the transition from summer to autumn has been a heavy mix of significant life events, murder podcasts, and some stuff in between.


Leo and I got a very grown-up, horrible thing called a mortgage, which is slightly terrifying, but we also used that mortgage to buy a sweet little flat in south London. We move in December and I get all tingly and excited when I think about it. (Major shoutout to my extremely handsome husband Leo for being a Responsible Adult and doing mortgage things.)
I’ve been working, cooking, running, spending a little too much time on Instagram, going to the market on Sundays, cooking some more, basking in the chill of autumn, and cursing the 5pm sunsets that have suddenly ambushed us. I’ve been planning a much-anticipated trip to New York and Ohio in November. I’ve been reading (Ready Player One, of course).

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