Book Titles

…people the world over describe their lives as an overwhelming, crazed, and often punishing grind. They say they yearn for nothing more than time for joy. Time to play.

…scholars say women taking time for themselves, deliberately choosing leisure without children or family, is nothing less than a courageous – subversive, almost – act of resistance.

…talk to any leisure researcher, and he or she will say that the true test of leisure is not what the activity is that fills a certain block of time but how that time feels.

Women are typically the ones who plan, organize, pack, execute, delegate, and clean up after outings, holidays, vacations, and holiday events.

That strong self-sacrificing ‘ethic of care,’… is the reason women tend to have the ongoing tap loop of tasks yet to be done… which contaminates the experience of any kind of time.

…screen time for American adults, not counting work on computers, can hit an astounding 8.5 hours a day, the most time sucking of any developed country in the world.

…research has found that, with the flick of the TV’s remote, our thinking brains shut off. Within thirty seconds, we lose our sense of self…

If true leisure is all about choice, sometimes TV is simply the easy choice. It’s right in your living room. It’s cheap. Turning it on requires no effort. Yes, sometimes we choose TV because we’re too tired for anything else.

…in Italy… long, lazy days away from the office [are] embraced as part of il dolce far niente – the sweetness of doing nothing.

Active play… is timeless, like flow, and crucial to humans from the moment of birth to the last breath.