Here are my annual fall pictures, including our November Thankful Pumpkin (and former October Halloween Pumpkin) sitting on our dining room table just waiting to be filled with more words. These fall days I’m directing “Annie” with middle schoolers and working on the sixth season of Prison Stories, Troy’s performing in readings of suicidal artists and lonely prisoners when he’s not singing to preschoolers, and Huck’s practicing hard for his first Quiz Bowl meet while mastering math problems and building his Pokemon collection. Perhaps best yet, we finally got all the way through “Finding Nemo,” having failed at this back when Huck was five.  Lots of laughs, minimal tears, fears conquered.

‘Tis easy to be thankful this time of year …