And so we say goodbye to Standard Time for another eight months. According to our newly adjusted clocks, today’s sunrise comes an hour later than yesterday, and sunset will come an hour later, until after Halloween.
This is to avoid the spectacle, in our neck of the woods, of the sun rising shortly after 4 a.m. in June.
I actually wouldn’t mind that. I like sunshine in the morning more than I like sunsets after 9 p.m. But I’m a morning person, what do I know?
Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.
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