We should start reading again

When my daughter takes her afternoon nap, I usually lie down beside her with my cell phone. And you know how you can kill many valuable hours browsing the net and facebooking on the phone. I was/am no difference. But I have been trying to make a change to this habit for the past few days.

Today, I kept my phone in the kitchen before going to the bedroom to put my daughter down for a nap. After she fell asleep, I read the latest issue of TIME magazine. It felt so good reading something in the afternoon after so many years - it reminded me of my childhood and adolescent years when I always went to bed in the afternoon with a story book. I would read a book and doze off thinking about what I just read.

*Scrawled on August 10, 2015

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