[Personal] A New Chapter: London Calling

This year has been full of life changes for me:  In the next day, I'll be relocating to London for the next several months, and possibly longer, to help ramp Brightcove's efforts in the UK and EU.  As many of you know, one of the precipitating factors to this move has been a change in my personal circumstances where over the past 9 months, Dara and I came to the realization that we were perhaps much better as friends than husband and wife.  The process has been painful, emotionally fraught and the hardest thing we've ever been through.  But it has also been healthy for us, illuminating, even liberating, and I'm glad we figured it out now before our lives got much more complicated. 

There have also been silver linings: I have learned much about myself and gotten closer to friends and family through the wonderful support they've offered.   I'll forever be grateful to Dara for the fond memories, for her patience, her love, for teaching me so much and making me a better person more comfortable in my own skin.  I feel blessed to know her.

The other silver lining in all of this is that I've always wanted to live abroad and travel extensively, with London holding a special place in my heart.  So I'm really looking forward to my new adventures, to seeing new places and meeting new people.  I'll be through Boston and New York fairly regularly but, if you're based in the UK/EU or headed my way, drop me a line!

Comments

[wendy]

Have a great time in London Rags! I have always wanted to live there.

[Waldron]

Rags, tell me these are your flat and your street, and not just some random picturesque photos of London.

[David Porter]

I'm so envious - you're going to have some great times ahead. Glad I was able to see you off on Sat!