difficult to find the balance, then, between being a teacher and a writer. i’m writing this at 6.15 in the morning and my habit has been to rise at about five or five thirty and write for an hour or so in the mornings before my family wakes up, and i hope i can continue this well into the school term, before exhaustion sets in.
but, and this is important, i’m only teaching now to pay the bills. my real work happens in that hour every morning, when i do what i was made to do. i hope that every writer, every artist, reaches that point in their creative lives sooner 