Time & Priorities

My daughter is going to be nine next month.  She's gotten old enough to understand that Daddy tends to disappear when he's on deadline.  The four-year-old is less patient, as evidenced by his comment yesterday evening:

"But Daddy, we haven't roughhoused together in a while today."

The "today" makes me smile, but this kind of comment is still a powerful gut punch.  Writing is my second job, and that means a lot less free time.  I've talked before about trying to balance writing and family and every