Dear Friends,

I've been trying to send a newsletter about What I've Done This Summer for... The entirety of the summer. It's now past summer! Labour Day is in the rearview mirror! And because one of the things that happened during the summer was a lot of dry weather, the neighbours' maple has been dropping bright red leaves into our yard for a couple of weeks now, so that when I sit in the garden to write – a thing I've been doing, blessedly, miraculously, for about a month – it already smells of...