So I recently accepted a job. I’m not ready to tell the world but I’m not hiding it. It’s not a secret, but it’s not public. It’s somewhere in between.

They’re many reasons I didn’t mention it to people. Part of the reason was my boss didn’t know yet. Part of the reason is that certain people had to be told. But when you meet someone it eventually leads to, “so what do you do question mark”. Then I pause and it’s awkward because why can’t I answer this question. I don’t want to tell them a lie and I can’t tell them my future plans but I don’t want to tell them what I currently do because it’s not what I want to be doing. The job offer has been made and accepted but it’s still not the right time. I have an accepted the fact that I’m moving and the plans to move are in place. Yet I don’t know what to say!

I’ve moved quite a bit over the past year. I was living in Lynchburg when I moved to Nashville and now I’m moving to Reading Pennsylvania. What feels like home has been a bit of a journey. However, my friends in Nashville… they are the best! They accepted me and made me one of their own and made me feel like I was home before I was ready to say, “I’m about to head home” at the end of the day. Nashville is full of people who claim you as one of their own upon meeting you and then immediately invite you into their lives with the assumption that you’ll be around for a while. That’s what makes leaving hard.

I’m going to miss a lot of things about Nashville. I’m going to miss the music. I’m going to miss all the sunshine and crazy weather. I’m definitely going to miss the food. But as I learned in Mrs. Baker’s class so many years ago, quotation mark life is about the places you go the people you meet in the books you read. And Nashville is a wonderful city, has incredible people, and a history that would blow you away.