NY Times, How 74 year-old Harold Bloom, Writer and ME person, spends his Sundays

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/...former-publicist-spends-his-sundays.html?_r=0

How Howard Bloom, Writer and Former Publicist, Spends His Sundays
Sunday Routine

By JOHN LELAND JAN. 5, 2018

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• chronic fatigue syndrome so severe that he barely got out of bed. “And for five of those years I was too weak to speak and too weak to have another person in the room with me,” Mr. Bloom, now 74, said. Nonetheless, he managed to write three science-related books during those years, and recently published his seventh, “How I Accidentally Started the Sixties,” a memoir of chemical and spiritual experimentation that begins in 1962. Mr. Bloom lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where he runs several online discussion groups.
  
  SLEEP SOLUTION When I was fighting chronic fatigue syndrome, one of the first symptoms was insomnia. Eventually it occurred to me that my body was trying to tell me something. It didn’t want to sleep the normal routine eight hours. So I broke the eight hours into two four-hour shifts, and started to do one of the four-hour shifts from 11 o’clock in the morning to 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and the other one from 4 o’clock in the morning until 8 o’clock in the morning. And it was one of those tiny incremental things that helped me get out of the bedroom.
  
  TAKE IT EASY Sunday is a day I don’t force myself to do any exercises, any push-ups, or take a bath, because I’m taking it easy.

 

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"I carry two kindles in a holster on my right hip." -- This man is my hero. He manages to lead such an interesting and vibrant life with so much illness. Amazing.