The Need for Speed

by A. Craig Copetas, from the book Mona Lisa’s Pajamas
Utne.com
May-June 2009

It’s springtime, and national pastimes are in full swing all over the world. The English congregate around cricket pitches. The French turn their thoughts to packs of cyclists spinning down country roads. And the Albanians are in the thick of the Hoxha sliding season...

What I Did On My Summer Nocation

by Linton Weeks
NPR.org, May 22, 2009 · First there was the shorter vacation, then the workation and the staycation. Now comes the latest signpost that the recession is changing the way Americans live — the nocation.