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Tag: sleep
We’ve had such a slew of bad nights again – without my posts from last week the memory of good nights would already have faded from my frazzled mind. I…
Years ago, in my fundamentalist Christian days, I wanted to try fasting for a meaningful length of time. I think I did five days of just water and chewing gum.…
This week brings an unwanted gift of hot air (literal hot air) from the continent. I’m confident that the days will be just about bearable, but have a lot of…
Last night, the toddler slept through and the baby only woke once. In the morning I woke up with that slightly horrible feeling of having slept so deeply that your…
Sleep is having another mini-revival. I remember first hearing about the importance of good sleep (from a non-medical source) when Arianna Huffington’s book Thrive came out in 2014. I only read the book this year, but I remember having being intrigued by the idea and hearing about it from other people. Usually business people like to brag about how little sleep they need, and how Napoleon- or Thatcher-like that makes them. Arianna Huffington was saying the opposite, and I liked it.
Now Arianna is back with another book on sleep, and I’ve been inspired to try and improve my sleep, too.