I’m a mom, writer and photographer. I’m also an insomniac. So, I do all those things on very little sleep. I have a hard time falling asleep at night, a hard time staying asleep and an even harder time getting out of bed in the morning. Always have.
I spent 20 years writing and producing for a variety of Canadian newspapers, and lifestyle television shows ranging from news to fashion, lifestyle and music magazines. If you’ve ever had to get up at 5 a.m. in the middle of January to pick up Tim Horton’s coffee and donuts for your production team when it’s minus 35 Celcius outside (that’s minus 30 Fahrenheit!), you know “the biz” isn’t always as glamorous as it seems.
I’ve met and interviewed people as famous as Jon Bon Jovi and Kris Kristofferson, had a beer with Glen Campbell, partied with The Road Hammers, and was dissed by Candace Bushnell. Meeting and interviewing celebrities wasn’t always fun and easy, but it was definitely interesting.
I left all that in 2012 when I had my daughter and have never looked back. Since then I’ve been focusing on being a mom, writing and looking for new and innovative ways to fall asleep and stay asleep. I have a Journalism degree and an MA in Writing Pop Fiction, and have studied everything from improv to photography so I always have a laundry list of projects on the go. When time is scarce, being an insomniac comes in handy.
My super power is taking in lots of information and distilling it to its most basic and pertinent form. I’m endlessly curious, and worry about everything from the zombie apocalypse to the very real challenges of raising a confident, happy and well-adjusted child during a global pandemic. These thoughts and many, many more plague me, especially at 4 a.m. when the rest of the world is sleeping.
I live in Los Angeles with my husband and 8-year old daughter and I love the stillness of the world in the middle of the night. That hopeful, vaguely nerve-wracking time between midnight and dawn when everything seems at once more hopeful and more bleak.
Can’t sleep? Come spend some time thinking and musing with me. We might just find some answers and sleep solutions together.
~Méline