Article October 31, 2011 Issue

Quit counting!

By Blythe Evans

The last scene of the movie closed, and before the credits came up, there was an epilogue on the screen telling what happened to each of the major characters in future years. I quickly subtracted the dates to determine what age each one had reached.

The next day, as I groggily turned toward my alarm clock, I calculated how many hours of sleep I’d had that night. Not enough!

Later in the day as I played with our dog, I found myself thinking about how old the dog is—in dog years!

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