I have been through deep schedules of early bird, night owl, and somewhere like an exhausted pigeon in between… the factors of bedtime and wake-up time, have to do with many underlying factors as you age.

Now, I work 3 evening shifts a week from 2 to 9pm, and coming home is a process of coming in and then settling in to get to bed. My ole body still wants to rise at 6:00 am , but some days it’s 8:00 or so before I can manage rising up. I try to be in bed by 11:30 or so because of my old body time clock. But… on my days off, I’ll hit the bed at 9:30 and enjoy sunrise coffee time. I’m not complicated, I would much rather do the old people 9:30 to bed up at 6 to greet the day, but my life is just in a different place right now… yes, exhausted pigeon stage. I’m a work in progress… but this morning, I’m hearing that old saying in my head, “early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise…”