Five years ago, if I saw the words “family friendly hotel” I would have thrown up in my mouth a little. OK, maybe a lot. I remember when a vacation meant wine tasting in Bordeaux in the morning and eating fruits de mer in a Michelin-starred restaurant in Biarritz in the afternoon. When a Jamaican […]
On this day, however, I was as healthy as any remission patient could be, and I danced like no one was watching. I woke up before sunrise on my fourth day in Greece, on the island of Milos. As I walked on the rocks where the electric blue water crashes on the shore, I realized […]
Part of the suffer culture we live in, yells at us: GIVE. BE PRESENT. Do it ALL. Are you miserable? GREAT! Family takes resort vacation. Parents drop kids off at (resort provided) Kids’ Club. Kids play with other kids. Parents get massages and take naps. But is everyone really happy? One woman says, no. Earlier this […]
How can we enforce boundaries about work when we’re taught to equate one’s productivity with one’s morality? It will be said that, while a little leisure is pleasant, men would not know how to fill their days if they had only four hours of work out of the 24. In so far as this is […]
