Self-study constitutes a powerful and pragmatic method for researching the complex interplay between individuals and institutions. In this chapter, that method is deployed to investigate aspects of my current and hoped for continuing identity shift as I embrace life—or rather multiple lives—after 34 years of continuing academic work (Danaher, Anteliz, Mulligan, & Danaher (eds), The Routledge international handbook of autoethnography in educational research (Routledge international handbooks), Routledge, 2023). In particular, the chapter presents a series of attempts at different genres of creative writing, including autobiographical reflections, poetry and textual fragments, designed to signify my sense of delighted liberation from the constraints of academic writing, and my commitment to valuing diverse expressions of understandings of the world. In doing so, I seek to channel the accumulated knowledge of the past 34 years into previously unimagined pathways.