*Isla*

Water laps at the boat as we glide across the water. The larger waves we encountered a couple of days ago, waves that made me question my decision to do this and think that there was a good chance I was going to end up in the ocean, have died down, and now, it’s just a calm, rolling motion that makes me want to fall asleep.

But I can’t do that.

I haven’t been able to sleep for days, weeks, not since I had decided that this was something I had to do, even when ...