Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

Thank you, Christine, for understanding, and for letting me know that I'm not alone in feeling torn between the teaching work that feeds my spirit (though not my wallet) and the lonely, wilderness-experience of working on the dissertation, which should eventually allow me to support myself again, but in the meantime TAKES rather than gives energy. You're right, that it's hard to really see the teaching as self-indulgent when it's what keeps us going, allows us to persevere.
I really appreciate that.