The alarm goes off on my phone at 7 a.m. and I probably snooze it. I need but usually fail to get nine hours of sleep, to my daily disadvantage. The four people in our household are evenly divided between morning people and emphatically non-morning people. I am in the second group, with my younger son, so once I’ve crawled up through the layers of grogginess and gotten myself out of bed, my job is to go jolly the still-unconscious younger boy out of his own stupor, while the bright-eyed people handle breakfast. Once the younger boy is responsive, I go put in my contact lenses, and then brush my teeth with Crest regular toothpaste. Years and years ago I learned that the active ingredient in tartar-control toothpaste secretly jacks up some people’s mouths, and that I am one of those people. So I use the old-fashioned ordinary toothpaste. Sometimes I have to crouch down to find it on the bottom shelf in the store below all the innovative and multifunctional toothpastes. When I was in college, a quarter-century ago, I was fastidious about not going outside until I had showered and dressed for the day. Because I was not… Read full this story
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