Early to bed.....

The long summer days make Ben Franklin's saying about Early to bed and early to rise... kind of hard to carry out. Going to bed early in the long summer evenings means getting down before sundown. The Scaninavians must be used to that, but most of us here in the United States are not.

Similarly, the sun comes peeking up in the morning way earlier than many would like.

For those of us who are winter challenged, it is wonderful. For those who lack our unique characteristic, it can be rather a bore.

But the "fade up" and the "fade down" of the sun is the basis for the SunRise Clocks that BioBrite makes. Our SunRise Clocks fade up and gently wake you in the morning and fade down and help you fall to sleep in the evening.

Just like the sun.

The alternative alarm clocks - the ones that bleat you out of bed in the morning, and don't provide soothing fading light in the evening - seem to us to be unnatural. Or maybe unsunny.