The Living is Becoming Easier

Summertime is the best season by any measure. No school, less work, more travel, more sun, better food, happy people, sunscreen and swimming.

There’s an interesting tension in the United States around summer, a time when no one really wants to work (or if they do, certainly not hard) but yet we agree that the European custom of taking a true extended holiday is out of the question.

In my neighborhood I have noticed many French people on vacation. I know this because they’re in groups, carrying backpacks, and speaking French. They have been doing this since March: visiting New York.

Memorial Day Weekend is the only start to summer we can all agree on, and one that provides a small taste of America’s rarest luxury: time.