Sunset | Sausalito, CA

Anthropologie Sweatshirt | Free People Jeans

Told you we were going to talk about this sweater again. But not too much, because while it may be 8:30AM in New York City (where I am, sitting at my parents' dining room table in a ratty, oversized sweatshirt that I bought at the Christmas Fair in elementary school and drinking cup after cup after cup of coffee out of a mug with my childhood cat's photograph on it), it is 5:30AM in my West Coast head. I'm here for a week on business, but Indy came with me because he wanted to and he's at an age where he can tag along with me to work things and be okay about it - but as easy as he is to travel with, he still "needed to ask me something" until about 2 o'clock in the morning. And then, once he was absolutely positive that he had woken me up (over and over) beyond the point of no return, he passed out.

Shirt | Pants | Bag | Boots

For someone who has objectively quite a lot of clothing, I spend a bizarre amount of time standing in front of my closet feeling like I have nothing to wear. Because while I own plenty of cool stuff that's fun to put on when I feel like getting all dressed up, what I actually wear on a day-to-day basis are basics in neutral colors - striped tees, grey sweaters, black pants or jeans. But since I have a limited number of these items, what happens is I wear the same four or five shirts and the same two or three bottoms over and over and over and over until finally they're completely falling apart.

Which brings me to the fact that fall is a great time to stock up on basics: those things that you should always have sitting in your closet because they're what you'll really wear. A perfect sweater, jeans you can live in, a comfortable pair of boots, a button-down plaid shirt, etc. What I'm wearing here are a few wear-everywhere-everyday basics from JCPenney: a great pair of grey combat boots, a striped tee (with a twist, so it's not boring; I love those dropped sleeves), and cropped, stretchy black pants that feel like pajamas but are cute enough to wear out at night.

J.Crew Cami | Free People Bralette | Free People Super Flares

I see the sunset every night here. I've heard that the sky looks like that for not-so-great reasons (including pollution and forest fires), but still: look at it. It looks like that every. night. And every night, there's this moment when the sun hits this particular spot in the sky and comes streaming in through our living room window, and turns our entire house gold, and Indy and I go running out to do wind sprints up and down the block because it's beautiful out and because bedtime can wait.

When the sky looks like that, everything can wait, actually. Dinner. Errands. Lists and notes and emails and phone calls and all those musts and have-tos: they can all wait while you take a moment to watch.