Musings - On the editor's mind

Sunday dawned gloriously, the last day of the weekend, the first morning of again waking to standard time. Morning light was behind the curtains around 6:30 a.m., exactly the right time, as Mother Nature made it and intended all days to be.

Standard Time. It comes to us the first Saturday in November, when we set our clocks back an hour for the next four-and-a-half months and our body rhythms again align with the cycle of the earth and the sun.

That is too short a period. Congress shrunk it down from five months almost 20 years ago. Used to be standard time was restored to us the last Sunday i...