Dear Lynn: Coffee & Caffeine
Dear [Lynn],
Sounds like your kitchen smells very nice each morning, with those coffee aromas wafting about.
On the excuse of needing more coffee to end a letter: *smile*
I used to be a big coffee and pop drinker (Do they call a soft drink a soda, a pop, or a soda pop in your area?). But I had trouble sleeping at night also, and so gave it up about 12 years ago.
Caffeine is probably the single worst widely available assault we can make on our body rhythms. My mother drinks lots of diet Pepsi and then wonders why she can’t sleep at night and can only stay half awake during the day. Also, there’ve been numerous reports about how so many people are falling asleep while driving these days. I suspect that caffeine (or, more precisely, the excess consumption of caffeine) is largely responsible for these snoozing road warriors.
Admittedly, immediately after consumption, there is a lift of mental energies. But in me at least, that goes away in an hour or less, and I am worse off then, than had I not consumed it at all. But hey, everybody’s body chemistry is different. Mine just happens to hate too much caffeine. Some I know can drink a ton of it, and still sleep like babies after feeding. To each his own, right? 
Well, I really must get going this time. Talk to you soon.