Tag: insomnia

  • While I Lay Not Sleeping

    While I Lay Not Sleeping

    While I’m writing this novella I’ve been using phrases from hymns and Bible verses as chapter headers. I wasn’t really sure why, until about halfway into it, and then I figured it out. But one of the header lines was ‘Morning comes, but also night” from Isaiah 21:12. I was contemplating that as I lay…

  • It’s Dark, Let’s get Fat

    It’s Dark, Let’s get Fat

    Last night after my bedtime as I was standing barefoot in the kitchen eating kippered herring from the can, I was thinking about the complex nature of our relationship with food. I’d decided to eat a snack because I’d been lying in bed trying to sleep, with my stomach growling. I’d decided to eat the kippers because…

  • A Brain for Art and Science

    I think some of you know that I’m taking an intensive Chemistry class this summer, to finish up General Chem and prepare to take Organic Chemistry this fall. It’s nothing super complicated, the last chapter was boiling point elevation, freezing point depression, vapor pressure… this chapter we will finish tomorrow and then an exam for…

  • Free Story by Pam Uphoff!

    It’s not mine, but I have talked a good bit about YA reads that are good, clean books. This fits the bill, and it has AI’s, sentient pets, a T-Rex, and lots of action. All that, and it’s free today, this week, so go scoop it up and enjoy, or give to your kids to…