I’m late writing this post. I kept waiting for the summer to slow down so I could write with my head clear. That never happened and my students have been back for several weeks, so fall is formally underway.

My blog turned 10 in July. Looking back, it’s fascinating to see how much has changed over the past ten years and how I’ve transitioned between careers. Medical publishing to mostly freelance work to public libraries to academic libraries and presently I’m in my final year of the tenure-track process at my current place, one way or another.

I don’t blog nearly as much as I used to and that comes for a number of reasons: there’s other social media for short quick thoughts; I still haven’t gotten good at drafting things on the train on the way to or from work regularly; writing time is much rarer and if I’m not working on the long research project to do list I feel guilty. I have so much writing that I want to do…

There are a number of pieces also sitting in draft because I need to reread them, go through them once more before I throw them out to the world. But I do still find a lot of value in having this space for myself and my voice. The blog has given me a lot of opportunity to connect with other librarians and academic colleagues.

I don’t know whether it will last me another ten years though at present I don’t see why not. WordPress is still humming along; LisHost is still an excellent host. I can see this outlasting many of the social media sites that I use–it’s a more controllable platform and I get to decide on the comments, which helps. But who knows what ten years will bring–if I’ll still be a librarian in the same sense, if I’ll still want to write this way.

Hopefully, in the next 10 years, my most popular post won’t still be about why Playaways break so often and hopefully a decade-from-now-Abigail will still like my hedgehog identity. It’s distinct, at least.

On to the next decade…