View original postand her life expectancy was less than a year. I stopped everything except caring for my wife. When she was up to it we played cards or else we just talked. A solitary pursuit like reading seemed selfish, like taking away from the limited time we had left.
View original postThen about a six weeks ago, she asked me why I never went to the library (which is across the street from our house. I explained and she said, so read when I'm sleeping. D'uh.
View original postIt took me three or four days to take her up on it. I've read ten books since then.
Reading slumps are really weird things to me
- 12/02/2017 04:20:58 AM
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I stopped reading when the doctor told us Laurel had an untreatable disease...
- 12/02/2017 10:20:55 PM
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Great suggestion from your wife! *NM*
- 13/02/2017 03:16:43 AM
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*NM*
Just quit worrying about it and do other things for a while
- 13/02/2017 04:47:42 PM
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Not worrying about it as much as just realizing that I've never really gone through such a spell
- 18/02/2017 01:30:13 PM
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Been there
- 02/03/2017 10:00:34 PM
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Mine's been more work-related, but I do recall grad school exhaustion too well even after 20 years *NM*
- 05/03/2017 10:26:17 PM
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What are you doing at work? My ability to read waxes and wanes with what I'm doing.
- 08/03/2017 08:39:56 PM
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