Shanspirations

In my quest to turn my life-long night owl self into a morning person, I’ve felt like a detective trying to track clues to solve a mystery.  At last, I am getting to find out what it is like to enjoy getting up early when I thought it would always be drudgery.  (To read about [...]

As a prelude to my next post, here are some interesting things about wavelengths of light:
From over here:
This was a study comparing the effects of equal intensities of red and blue light on sleepiness and melatonin effects (for the night, some people were put in rooms with blue light, others with red light), I quote [...]

I found this post of Dawn’s over here and it gave me a flash of Shanspiration. Here’s a few excerpts (italics are mine):

I don’t get Mother’s Day. I don’t want to be a party pooper or a Scrooge…Mooge…or be the one to rain on everyone’s parade, but I don’t get Mother’s Day.
I don’t [...]

Several months ago, perhaps around the time of my first round of free-running sleep (more here also), I read an online ad for an ebook on sleep that captured my attention. I desperately wanted to read it because it sounded so promising to help people like me who have problems with sleep. But the book [...]

Yes, it really happened. My dad won’t believe this. His daughter, a morning person?
“For the first time in my whole life I got to be a morning person!!! Forgive my enthusiasm, but it was incredible! I loved being wide awake when the sunrise came. I peeped out the window, listening for birds, watching the sky [...]