Say, did you know that you’re NOT supposed to take melatonin every night for approximately 3.5 years, through a pandemic and two children and multiple projects and career developments, and then expect your body to produce melatonin on its own, only to find out that it has totally stopped? ME TOO! My sleep has recently been totally upended, I am sleep insecure, I am hungry for sleep, I am obsessed with ‘sleep hygiene.’ Can anyone else not read or say the word hygiene without thinking of pubes? These are the things that I think about at 12:03 AM, awake as I’ve ever been. The other night while reading before bed, lights dim, phone in the other room (HYGIENE / SLEEP PUBES) I looked at my Kindle and wondered, is the light from my kindle considering blue light? Should I return to actual, physical books?

But then, where would I put all of these books? My shelves are full.

If only there was a way to read from a physical book, but without buying, and having to keep it together. Read it, but then give it back. Give it to someone that wants to read it, after you.

Borrow it.

If only.

Had I invented something?

I really thought this for a good ten seconds.

THE LIBRARY, my cortisol screamed, THE LIBRARY, YOU DUMMY.

Oh, I apologized. Right. I lay there counting unread books, instead of sheep.