A Week Off Would Be Just the Thing

This is kind of related to skiing, but I think it's related more closely to the swelling interest in work-life balance in America - specifically, women's - that has been sparked by Judith Warner's new book, A Perfect Madness. (On After School Snack, the other place I blog, Elise has written two posts on the book.) Anyhow, in Finland, schoolkids get a week off in the middle of February, and Finland being a cold, snowy place, many Finns head north to go skiing. As my granddad would say, "Holy mackerel." That's the kind of "choice" I could endorse in an "ownership society."