I’ve been tired all week. On Tuesday, I came home and was looking through my phone, when I fell asleep at 6:00 PM. I woke up about forty-minutes later and thought to myself, What if I just stayed asleep? I promptly did that very thing and slept until 6 AM the next morning. When I woke up, I thought, I should be well-rested after that! But that wasn’t the case. I was exhausted! All day long!

I have ridiculous, non-science-based theories about what the body can endure and a lot of it is based around what I’ve experienced as a teacher over the last 25+ years in the field. I usually refer to it as “the peeling away of the onion.” With each passing week, you peel away the layers until you have nothing more than the raw center of the onion. You don’t want to touch that.