Tag: sleep

  • Why an Hour of Conversation Can Leave Me Unable to Think

    There is a moment I know well. I am mid-conversation — talking, listening, engaged — and then, with very little warning, everything stops working at once. Not just the words. The movement. The thinking. All of it collapses into what I can only describe as a super slow heap. It is not tiredness in any…

  • Midnight

    Woken by a crack of deep, all-over pain. I sat on the edge of the bed and rocked in the dark while I waited for the meds to kick in.