To Sleep Perchance to Dream
It’s been said that if you plan to reform society, first reform your self. As I approach my 56th birthday this week, I’ve decided to take up that challenge. After all, I’m not famous enough to preach from the grave and I’m old enough to know that the alternative to growing older is not staying young but growing green and moldy.
My wife Julie for some odd reason wants me to stay around and is advising me on my lifestyle reforms. The first problem I’m attacking is my sleep pattern, mainly a lack of sleep. During the school year I usually sleep 4 to 5 hours a night. The goal is to get this up to 8 hours in the summer and then try to keep it there during the school year.
We decided to start with sleep because of what my wife read in a book, The Schwarzbein Principle II, The Transition, by Diana Schwarzbein, M.D. Why do I trust Dr. Schwarzbein? I don’t, but I trust my wife. Julie has spent the last decade learning about and dealing with my younger son’s autism. I don’t know if autism can be cured, but I know that Alex has gone from a student who could not be in a regular classroom because he was so disruptive to a student that others want to have as a partner on any creative project.
Although my personal reforms are not the focus of this blog, I will be posting updates and reflections as the reforms continue.