Pretty much every day that I wake up, I feel like a hibernating bear that's been stirred

from its month's long slumber.

I hit the snooze button.

I stare at the ceiling with one eye because I, honest to God, cannot open my left eye

for several minutes after waking.

It's always disorienting.

I just need time to adjust to my emergence from dream world.

So, okay, I'm not a morning person.

And that is even more true when winter descends and the mornings get darker.

But sometimes we have to get up earlier than we'd like.

And there are those of you who just want to wake up a little earlier.

And so today we have a rerun for ya about how to wake up earlier.

It's hosted by Kavita George, who at the time had to wake up at the crack of dawn for

her morning show job at Alaska Public Radio.

Lucky for her, she is now the statewide affairs reporter and gets to roll at about at eight.

All right, here's Kavita.

This is NPR's life kit.

Carla Finley is a baker in Brooklyn, New York, who starts her day at 5 or 6 a.m. and she

loves it.

Sometimes it's still dark, which is actually I love something about feeling the light

come in.

It feels really sacred and it's not like I'm sitting there watching the sunrise, but you

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