Making the Most of Morning Light When Fall Days Get Shorter
As fall days get shorter, a few minutes of morning daylight and dimmer evenings can help your whole family feel more awake and sleep better.

As fall days get shorter, a few minutes of morning daylight and dimmer evenings can help your whole family feel more awake and sleep better.

The mail carrier waves. A neighbor’s dog barks twice and then loses interest. Somewhere down the block, a lawnmower finally gives up for the season. This is what a walk sounds like in early fall, and it’s a lot more interesting than a treadmill readout. As the heat breaks and the air turns crisp, something…

The mornings get darker sooner. The porch chairs come inside. And somewhere between the last backyard barbecue and the first sweater, a lot of people stop moving as much as they did all summer, without ever really deciding to. It’s not dramatic. There’s no single day where you decide to sit more. It just happens….

Every August, Senior Citizens Day rolls around and mostly gets ignored. No fireworks, no big sales, no flood of social posts. Which is a little strange, considering it’s a day set aside to think about the people who built the world we’re currently living in. The purpose of a day like this isn’t just gratitude….