Posts by Diane Auer Jones
November 30, 1999, 01:00 AM ET
How About a Vacation From Email
Ahhh, summer vacation is finally here. No, not the three months, I’m going to write a book, organize my papers, clean my basement, and make home-made meals sort of vacation, but instead, the I’m taking 13 days off in a row so that I can be with my family, visit extended family, and see the sites. We 12-month-a-year working stiffs long for this sort of thing. Yes, yes, I am paid to work 12 months a year, so no pity party required or deserved. It’s just that our family has taken relatively few vacations over the last 20 years, so this is much more a special occasion for us than most who are in my tax bracket.
It would be nice to have a regular week at the beach, or an annual trek to Grandma’s, but we live on a boat and both grandmothers live just around the Beltway, so the regular vacation thing has just never worked out for us (although some would argue, and I would agree, that...
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