ATLANTA (AP) — Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness. ...more

October 29, 2009

Hillsborough County high schools start the day far too early, in my opinion. Studies have shown that teenagers are on a different sleep cycle from the rest of us. If left to their own devices, they'll be ready for sleep much later, and wake up later, too. (Like that's news to anybody with a teenager in the house.) ...more

December 14, 2008

Parenting column about the dangers of "drowsy driving." ...more

December 11, 2008

The presents are wrapped. The kids are wound up. The decorations are everywhere. And you are wiped out. ...more

December 24, 2007

In the National Sleep Foundation's 2002 Sleep in America Poll, 37 percent of adults reported they snored at least a few nights a week during the previous year, and 27 percent said they snore every night or almost every night. ...more

September 27, 2007