One night last week, as I prepared to get in bed, I paused to notice the landscape atop my sheets.  My pillow was placed in the corner of the mattress, as I’ve been sleeping diagonally for the past couple weeks.  The inventory around the pillow was as follows:  the small blanket I’ve been sleeping with since infancy, my iPad®, a white cord, a pair of ear buds, two books, a few crumpled paper towels (I’d been nursing a cold and paper towels hold more snot than tissues) and a spoon. I paused to consider the spread before throwing away the […]