An exciting idea. I usually write for an hour or so, and then I go to sleep.
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Sleep apnoea and tinnitus.
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Worrying about insomnia.
Stress, love, people not understanding me, me not understanding people.
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I am an insomniac, so I often draw and write at night.
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View profile →I’ve apologised to my son, Thomas, for being absent for quite a lot of his first few years, but, as a working mother and breadwinner, I kind of had to be. I like to think I’ve made up for it.
The last few years. There’s a beauty to getting to an age where you really don’t care about stuff that used to bother you.
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Can’t remember.
Always flying: we’ve had flights where the engine’s been on fire; where we’ve nose-dived.
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