Full-time childcare for my toddler is $31,000. I can't afford that, so I work when she sleeps.
Every morning that I wake up to my 4 a.m. alarm — which is most mornings these days — I try to pump myself up by thinking about Toni Morrison, who famously used to wake up at this time so she could write before her kids woke up.
Unlike her, I'm not writing the next great American novel as I watch the sun come up. I’m just doing what I need to do to get what I need to get done every day.