Comments on: torrent

By: Kyla

Kyla — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:08:27 +0000

The feverish heat they give off is heart stopping. It is the only thing that can snap me fully awake in the night, an instant shot of adrenaline.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:47:24 +0000

PS-She is just adorable and that goes a long way for forgiving sleep deprevation.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:45:24 +0000

I have wondered the same thing, Bon.

How is it that the world survived? I guess if the world was mothered by those industrious women who need exactly 15 minutes of sleep and then leap out of bed to bake their bread and hang the laundry to dry on the line, then that explains the rest. But how did MY children survive? (Because I am not that woman! And I cannot remember the first six months of my eldest daugther’s life.)

By: woman in a window

woman in a window — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:59:40 +0000

You say, “babies in tents and camps and caves must have slept.” And certainly some of them, but many of them didn’t last and I wonder if in some sleep deprived stupor some of them were helped along their way. Struggling for sleep is like struggling for air. The body needs it. I wish you peace ’cause it’s no easy thing. (My oldest is sick right now and I was before. I’ve been a zombie for two weeks, remembering the three solid years of zombie I lived through and am surprised to have made it.)

By: alejna

alejna — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:45:13 +0000

You do write so beautifully.

I wish you some sleep.

I also wish me some sleep. I haven’t slept for more than 3 consecutive hours in several months. I blame the goats.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:22:51 +0000

Yes, yes, and yes.

Shredded mind and sleeping with goats and whiskey on gums, someone’s gums, dear GOD.

I thought it was teething for months, and finally after the first one poked through he slept through the night twice, and then was back to his usual wakeful antics.

Also: Eek! Posey looks just like Oscar.

By: anymommy

anymommy — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:02:30 +0000

This is my favorite sentence I’ve read in a long time:

“i am agog that the human race survives in spite of these hallucinatory days that seem so common as to be unremarkable.”

Uh huh. Your river of disjointed thoughts is beautiful, but still, I wish you sleep.

By: christy

christy — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:23:03 +0000

Not to scare you, but Izzy didn’t sleep through the night until he was ONE! YIKES!

By: sweetsalty kate

sweetsalty kate — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:50:13 +0000

We are enthusiastic proactive tylenolers, which generally worked pretty well for us, or at least enough to get us a decent night with every awake/wailing one. Actually, we found that baby Motrin lasted longer, which helps through the night.

But this isn’t meant to be advice.. I know you guys aren’t suffering for the sake of good clean unmedicated pain. And so all I can say is OMG TOTALLY and SUCKS and UGH and once again, what are you doing being such a fantastic writer when you’re so damn beat?
xo

By: mamie

mamie — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:23:14 +0000

how about at 4 p.m. when the tired comes, you actually have a drink? i do sometimes. doesn’t really help, but i pretend.

hang in there, baby mama. time does that weird slow to faltering then it races away.

i had to laugh a bit at mary’s account of a drunk fevered baby. though probably not funny in real life.