After many long hours of deliberation, I am leaving my position as a weekly columnist for the Bangor Daily News.

This fall I begin my tenure as a nursing student. This is a new stage in my life, with a new scope. While it is one that I find deeply absorbing, and an eventual springboard into future years of experience and adventure abroad, I feel that this turning point is a crossroads where my Maine readership cannot follow.
It will be a very strange thing for Friday to come and go unfettered by deadlines and unmarked by email exchanges with readers. But make no mistake: I will continue to write. My hope is that closing this one chapter will make it easier to open the next, with new forms of writing, new challenges, and new venues. Prune to grow, they say. Stay tuned.