ABSTRACT
“We go to bed. He's asleep before his head hits the pillow. I can't believe that the heated argument we had two hours ago isn't keeping him awake. I am still seething from the argument, and am also going over many other things that happened during the day, and I'm really unable to fall asleep. Remembering the phone call with my mother, that made me so sad, thinking about my son in the army who hasn't been in touch for 2 days, worried about a lecture I'm giving tomorrow and the few corrections I still need to make. And he? He's already snoring deeply. I prod him so that he makes less noise. He stirs but doesn't wake up. I think to myself: how can he be sleeping so deeply, without a worry in the world, when it will take me hours to clear my mind before I can fall asleep?”
