Fleeing from Hypocrisy

Mashing the "on" button on the projector, I glance up and see a raised hand.  A look and a nod gives the student permission to speak.

"Miss, how come we have to write every day?"

"Well, it's Creative Writing.  It kind of says it in the name of the course.  And it's good for you.  It helps get the juices flowing, gets your mind in the right place."

That is why I make them write every day, to get their minds in the right place.  But I feel like quite the hypocrite requiring them to write regularly even though I haven't set pen to paper--or finger to keyboard as the case may be--in months.  So, after more than a year of ignoring this blog, I've come back, if only to feel like less of a fraud when I tell my kids to write because it's good for them. Time will tell if I have the discipline to stay with it.