Now and again I am overwhelmed by my sense of personal good fortune. This is one of those times. They come frequently. What amazes me is that I've been able to be a working serious non-commercial writer with very little popularity, at least in the last half of my career. That's when much of my income came from teaching. Before that, I was lucky to survive on grants and for-hire gigs and a decade (1980s) of popularity. But most of my time has been devoted to my art and craft, which is amazing to me. Good fortune. The blessings of the gods. A little help from my friends. (It also helped, in the last half of my career, that I eliminated a considerable bar bill from my obligations ha ha.)
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