Musings on running, writing, skijoring and dog mushing. Eva Saulitis died of metastatic breast cancer in January of 2016, the Year of Loss. Is her last book, written about her journey toward death. The months of autumn had their bright moments. One of the brightest was that nonfiction class reading works that stretched and challenged me, writing several new stories, thinking about how to fix old ones, and enjoying the company of sterling classmates and a professor who surpassed.