Morning Tension Successfully Relieved
The clock on my bedside table taunted me. It read 5:45 a.m., but I’d been wide awake for at least 30 minutes despite it being the first day of my “staycation” away from work. Why couldn’t I ever sleep in? Waking up early wouldn’t have been so bad if there had been a prospect of a morning quickie, but that day it seemed unlikely. My wife, Anne, hadn’t moved in the last half-hour. She had to work that day and, after almost eighteen years of marriage, I knew her well enough to know that nothing...