Answering @VampiresAndRobots

#ScribesAndMakers#TTMD
You're a teacher, which can be both the most rewarding and most emotionally taxing job. How does this influence your creativity? Is it an escape? Is it related at all?

The job is especially rewarding and emotionally taxing given that I work with learners with severe and profound learning difficulties. I always have done, and I have always been taken by the number of creative types who fall into this particular type of work. Some of our best teaching assistants have come from drama backgrounds, and I suppose the ability to separate the role from the person performing it must certainly have something to do with it. The creativity is certainly an escape from it, and maybe my work does fuel the creativity as well.