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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time! |
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.- Dan Marino
As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you are working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you are with your children, you are thinking about working.
Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.
You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
