When it was time to leave the cottage, I would bring it back to my bed-sit, wash it in the basin, and iron and fold it so that it would be ready for the next visit.
That morning, at the beginning of April, I was wide awake with plans to slip out of the room without any of the fifteen other girls knowing I was gone until they woke to the rancid smell of grits and eggs to see my empty bed carefully made.
And this is the most phantasmic impression of all once I awakened to find Emily in my bed, clothed, with her arms and legs wrapped around me as if to provide warmth.
Our piece on efforts to develop drugs against drug resistant bacteria went to bed just before my son was born.
If anecdotal evidence is worth anything, my most productive hours are from 8pm to midnight, while my husband bounds out of bed at 6am, ready to crank out his best work.
Trying to go to bed early in preparation for my 7:10 flight in the morning, I saw a strange number calling my cell phone.
"My life sentence and nightmare is going to bed at night, closing my eyes and knowing that James lay 40 metres from the hospital ward, cold, alone, uncovered, " she said.
That is what I think about every night when I put my girls to bed.
And believe me, that is what I think about every night when I put my girls to bed.
And let me tell you something, that is what I think about every night when I put my girls to bed.
Later that night, after my mother had gone to sleep, my father came into my room without knocking, stood over my bed, then leaned down either to say something to me or to see if I was asleep.
To be laid in bed, brace put on to keep my spine in line, it was really hard to pick myself up again.
"I go to bed and close my eyes and feel so incredibly serene, " he said.
There was no one else in the room the locked door by my bed connected to another suite.
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It worked by directing my son to a test bed site that automatically analyzed his friends and created six groups (all in a few seconds).
So, in the darkness of an empty office building, Jason--whose idea of danger is "going to bed without brushing my teeth"--ends up going one-on-one against a trained killer.
As a teen-aged girl, I went to my basketball practice, next to aerobics with my mom, then doing my own little workout in my bedroom before I went to bed.
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It means the difference between a healthy happy family that can sleep at night with a full stomach or having to tell my son that we may all have to go to bed hungry.
"I don't know what to say, what a way to go, there have been a few question marks over my fielding so I put them to bed!"
When we went to bed, I held my doll in my arms and my brother the trumpet in his.
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The story cites a few particularly sad cases, including a woman who even takes her phone to bed with her (my phone has my alarm on it, so I do this too).
It started at 4:45 a.m. when the sound of a dying seal permeated my dreams, and I was still in a semi-sleep state when I realized the mortally wounded seal was in fact my six-year-old son, lying on the floor by my bed, unable to draw breath.
Like the 60-something couple I met on an overnight train to Birobidzhan in the Russian Far East, who insisted on readying my bed, giving me whole tomatoes from their garden to eat like apples, and then having "just a bit" of their vodka, amazingly still in a frosted bottle.
Wanting to be sure I got a good night's rest, my father would get in the bed before me to warm it up.
In bed I tried to check my email and twitter but I found out that 3G and GPRS aren't working.
At its worst, my guilt takes me to a dismal bed where I am visited by the ghost of Media Future.
The night before, I had fallen onto the floor in my sleep, something that hadn't happened since I'd first graduated from a crib to a bed and to prevent me from rolling out of it my parents had to set a pair of kitchen chairs at the side of the mattress.
When I was a small boy, I used to take the picture to bed with me every night, because for more than three years my father was deployed, unable to live with us full-time, serving overseas or in bases where there was no family housing.
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