To adjust to daylight saving time when clocks fall back, keep your wake time fixed, get bright light and some activity soon after waking, and keep naps short. Most people settle within a few days.

Picture this. The sun clambers over the horizon at 5:30 a.m., uninvited and wildly overdressed in gold. Your body wakes up already tired. Your jaw aches. Your shoulders hover near your ears like two stubborn...

There is a particular hush that settles over a household in the weeks after an acceptance letter arrives, a quiet compounded of pride, relief, and a faint, humming uncertainty about what comes next. Families...