Congratulations to those of you who can wake on command.  I, for one, must always depend on an alarm.  At one point in my life I had several, all going off at different times (but they are all grown now, so I’m back to one).

I am always intrigued and a little unsettled by this idea:  when I’ve slept through the alarm and awake in a panic, I can do almost everything in 15 minutes that I would normally do in an hour.  Why, then, can I not clean the entire house and prepare dinner in 25 minutes?