After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!
Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room.
'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.
I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.
No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.
My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.
My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping.
Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.
I like to do 'Garfield Mondays': lasagna and napping in a box.
My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.