When I can’t sleep, it isn’t that I can’t fall asleep to start with — it’s that I wake up either hot or revved-up or both. I tell myself the feeling is from a hormone, maybe cortisol, which will clear out in about twenty minutes, and until then I should relax my body by focusing on my breath. Of course, going back to sleep isn’t always that straightforward. What is it like for you, if you awaken in the night? Sunday Jan. 17, 2021, 4 AM — I woke up two hours ago and am not sure I’ve been back…
The only bad thing that ever happened, bike-wise, was the night my college roommate’s and my bikes were both dismantled and most of the parts stolen. We came out of our proofreading jobs, met up on the corner, and found our bikes half missing.
When memories are fragmented or vague, I love to look up historical events to help create an accurate timeline. And I’m not sure there’s any boundary at all between memory and imagination.
Often it seems that “wishing” means “wanting the result without the work.”
I read at least 54 books in 2020. Below are most of the ones I finished.
I met Colleen at Dani’s house, when I showed up to find them drawing at Dani’s dining room table. Hunched and curled lefthandedly over a sketch pad, Colleen turned only her head to gaze straight at me for a moment, unsmiling, as I sat down.
I’m so happy to have been published by TueNight. I wrote an essay about my favorite book, Harriet the Spy, and how it helped me. If you read it and like it, please scroll down here, on this page, and click Subscribe — you’ll help me build a following for my future book. Thanks!
I was attracted by the book description: “a ‘secret journal’ … written during the most difficult period of his life.”