welcome
vancouversun

vancouversun

Health

Health

The Bookless Club: How do you deal with sleeplessness?

vancouversun
Summary
Nutrition label

60% Informative

Jane Macdougall is a freelance writer and former National Post columnist who lives in Vancouver .

She was never a reliable sleeper, but her sleeplessness became Olympic-level insomnia when babies arrived.

Her favourite sleep aid was a Canadian -made product that was removed from shelves due to an ingredient that tripped over into the territory of prescription medication.

Send your answers by email text, not an attachment, in 100 words or less, along with your full name to Jane at thebooklessclub@gmail.com.

We will print some of the answers next week in this space.

For over 35 years , Kathleen Houston has collected about a hundred rhododendrons.

Although it was on a corner, my husband was frustrated with the lack of a garden — mostly lawn. He started digging up the lawn to establish more gardens. We now have very little lawn but probably a hundred rhododendrons, Japanese maple trees, a dogwood, two magnolias, etc. Hellebores and tulips are blooming now. Later, there will be peonies, dahlias, delphiniums and a selection of annuals. Linda Moore .

VR Score

54

Informative language

47

Neutral language

30

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

34

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

long-living

External references

9

https://www.reddit.com/submit?kind=link&url=https%3A//vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/the-bookless-club-how-do-you-deal-with-sleeplessness&title=https://www.reddit.com/submit?kind=link&url=https%3A//vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/the-bookless-club-how-do-you-deal-with-sleeplessness&title=The%20Bookless%20Club%3A%20How%20do%20you%20deal%20with%20sleeplessness%3Fhttps://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url= https%3A//vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/the-bookless-club-how-do-you-deal-with-sleeplessness&text=The%20Bookless%20Club%3A%20How%20do%20you%20deal%20with%20sleeplessness%3F&via=VancouverSunhttp://janemacdougall.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/the-bookless-club-how-do-you-deal-with-sleeplessnesshttps://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool?canonicalUrl=https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/the-bookless-club-how-do-you-deal-with-sleeplessness&title=The%20Bookless%20Club%3A%20How%20do%20you%20deal%20with%20sleeplessness%3Fhttps://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A//vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/the-bookless-club-how-do-you-deal-with-sleeplessness&text=The%20Bookless%20Club%3A%20How%20do%20you%20deal%20with%20sleeplessness%3F&via=VancouverSunhttps://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/the-bookless-club-how-do-you-deal-with-sleeplessness&media=https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/vancouversun/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0315-col-macdougall-2.jpghttps://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url= https%3A//vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/the-bookless-club-how-do-you-deal-with-sleeplessness