On the beach (Chatham, Mass.)

So it’s been a busy couple of months in the Clutterbuck-Cook household!

Hanna and I got married, all legal and everything, two weeks ago at one of our favorite neighborhood cafes. The morning ceremony was followed by a tasty breakfast of brioche and lattes which in turn was followed by the two brides going home and promptly falling into a deep, zombie-like trance for the rest of the day! Even low-key weddings take a surprising amount of energy to coordinate and execute.

In addition to getting married, I’ve also accepted an unexpected promotion from Assistant Reference Librarian to Reference Librarian — complete with minions! — at my place of work. Even though I’ve worked at the Massachusetts Historical Society for five years (as of October 12th, in fact!), this is a new position with new responsibilities that will keep me busy for the next six months to a year as I get my feet under me (thankfully I’ve got a crack team working with me, so I can’t complain!).

And I’ve decided to renew my dedication to being an historian and writer as well as a librarian, a decision that means making some difficult decisions about where to spend my non-work research and writing time. I want to keep reading and reviewing books, I have a couple of history projects underway, and along with a group of internet friends have organized a writing group to keep morale high.

All of these things mean less time for blogging, and as I’d already started to feel over-extended in terms of {blog posts I wanted to write x time it takes to actually write them \ available hours in which to focus on writing per week} it seems like a good time to rethink and consolidate my writing/blogging commitments.

Suffice to say, I’ve decided that as my two-year anniversary at Harpyness rolls around at the end of this year, I’ll be bowing out from this space. It’s been a great couple of years writing here, engaged in conversation with y’all, and I wish you well wherever you may go from here.