Translate at Home First

Speaking a language your spouse cannot follow is selfish whether you mean it that way or not.

When our careers force us to speak a language our spouse cannot follow, maybe we are being abusive. Not intentionally; selfishly. The same translation we owe a neighbor is the one we should be giving at home. Doing the translation is the discipline that keeps the people who live with you from going to the feed for what should be coming from you. The schema makes a writer practice that discipline. Practicing it on the page is practice for the kitchen, and practice for the company.