Time Flies

I love my sleep. And I need it desperately. Though it is something I rarely get. If I am lucky, I have about five hours of shut eye a night. If I am lucky. Many other nights that is reduced to only four, sometimes three. Being that I get up at 7:00 am to get the kids ready for school, I try to head to bed at 2:00 am. But last night, to my utter dismay, before I knew it, the clock read 3:00 am.

Day light savings time.

I must say, I am not a big fan. On the one hand, I love the extra hour of sunlight. And there is no question that extra time on a Friday to prepare for Shabbat is the best. But for right now, until I adjust, I feel like I've been robbed of an hour, and it is an hour I desperately need.

Just the other week I was returning from a speaking engagement and flew back from the West Coast to Philadelphia. I left on the red eye flight, had a layover, and returned at what should have been 9:00 am. But of course, add three hou

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