Thoughts About Our Summer Vacation Time
(Now that we're entering that time of year when many of us will take some sort of vacation, here are some tips we post almost every year. ...here some thoughts about the kind of recreation that made this particular vacation so special. We start with a preface about "vacation" in the busy, pressurized, high-tech world so many of us work in these days. While you're on vacation, you typically want to "get away" from some things - things like work. It can take a while, though, for some of us to really separate from our work. Maybe that's why many of us like to travel some distance from home for vacation. The physical separation helps us mentally disengage. Then again, these days we're all pretty much "connected" no matter how far we might travel, so the distance may or may not work as well as it once did. Even if your employer leaves you alone, there can be the temptation to check in - at least mentally - with your work even...