It has become very popular to talk about how stressed out we are because we (both individually and collectively) are caught in the middle of too many demands and stretched too thin. For some years, we have heard about the "super-mom" syndrome of trying to juggle a full professional life with the many duties of motherhood. More recently, there is a lot of talk about the increasing time demands the workplace is putting on everyone, creating conflicts not just between work and family but between work and personhood. Many of us have looked wistfully at the comparisons between the length of the workweek and the number of weeks of vacation provided in certain European countries. On campuses, the tension is between academics and co-curricular activities, particularly big-time sports at some schoo…