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Dear Reader,
Today I'm wishing it was nap time. My mother was always excited about nap time when I was a kid. In fact, the words, "It's nap time," made her giddy. But every afternoon about 2:30, it sealed my fate for at least 40 minutes.
You probably remember the routine:
"I don't want to go to sleep. I'm not tired."
"I don't care if you're not tired, Suzanne, get your blanket and lie down anyway."
Oh, don't I wish I still had my blanket, and that I could snooze for even 20 minutes, guilt-free, in the middle of the afternoon. But what would people say? "Suzanne, can't come to the phone right now. She's napping."
When our own kids were little I had a built-in excuse for taking a nap in the afternoon. "Oh, I was lying down with the kids to get them to sleep and I must have dozed off." But nap time for me now--I guess I'd need some kind of permission to make it okay.
I don't eat lunch, so I'd gladly exchange my lunch time for nap time. Sure, this could work. I can see it now--nappies for adults. Every afternoon at 2 p.m. employees would grab their rolled up blankets off the shelf and corporate presidents, managers, marketing directors, assembly workers--all levels of employees--would soon be lined up side-by-side on the floor, resting quietly on their blankees.
Postal workers would curl up on your front porch; Home Depot employees would all head for the lawn and garden department; the massage therapist would tell you to move over, it's nap time. Well, maybe I better rethink this napping thing one more time.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
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ATLAS OF FORGOTTEN PLACES (Fiction) by Jenny D. Williams
A missing girl. A rebel army. Ivory smugglers. And the secrets that connect them all...
Part political thriller, part love story--and loosely inspired by my time as an aid worker in Uganda and South Sudan--this book follows two women from different worlds who become bound in a quest to save their loved ones.
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