Why Adults Need Summer Vacation, Too
Despite having paid time off, many adults don’t take it. Here’s why adults need some sort of summer vacation and how to make time for it.
Elizabeth Birkelund is author of the novels The Dressmaker and The Runaway Wife. Formerly the “Money Talk” columnist at Cosmopolitan, Elizabeth worked as a freelance magazine journalist, writing at such outlets as Self, Glamour and Working Woman, among others. She currently serves as a trustee on the boards of the National Humanities Center and the Center for Fiction in New York. Elizabeth is a graduate of Brown University. She has four adult sons and lives in New York City, where she is busy working on her next novel, an espionage romance.
Despite having paid time off, many adults don’t take it. Here’s why adults need some sort of summer vacation and how to make time for it.