The war, so far as one can guess, has not made the capture of mice or slumbering sparrows more difficult.
Bidwell Park slumbered in obscurity until very recently, when the April issue of Walking magazine listed it as one of the nation's top 10 wildflower walks.
Her 2004 Bollywood-style retelling of a Jane Austen classic, Bride and Prejudice, has now become a cult film in America, scoring as one of the top DVDs rented by teenage girls who are hosting a 'slumber party'.
To the northwest lay Fuego's slumbering sister, Volcán del Agua, and just beyond it, in the verdant Panchoy Valley, was Antigua, a colonial town that writer Aldous Huxley described as "one of the most romantic cities in the world".
There are tender moments, too, as in one image showing Randy slumbering with a baby sibling splayed on his chest.
Whenever I conscientiously buy one, it slumbers in my suitcase unconsulted.
The finished product skews toward Japanese club kid chic, but the coats are machine washable and, as the tag on one sleeping bag says, "They're great for slumber parties, nap time and travel".
Then we slumbered in a stoned fever, heads lolling on one another's shoulders, as we rode home on the Long Island Rail Road.
As if just waking from one of its historic slumbers, the city of Newport has recently emerged from a recession that seemed to hang on longer than elsewhere in New England.
It's 5 00 a.m. and I'm feeding Daniel while rocking Lucas into a slumber as I tap this out with one finger on my iPad.
And as he slumbers peacefully, his beautiful iPhone 5 sits beside him.
