In my law practice, I often began morning instructions to my staff with, “In the middle of the night, I remembered that we need to … .” One day, my paralegal responded, “Don’t you ever sleep through the night?”

Taken aback, I stammered, “Uh … no. Do you?” I was surprised to learn that she usually did. Perhaps I thought waking in the middle of the night was an occupational hazard of working in a law firm. I had awakened for so many years that I forgot that some people don’t.