Can bloggers take holidays?

Elizabeth Holmes in The Wall Street Journal wonders if bloggers can or should take holidays:

'Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, experienced a similar blow this month when he took a weeklong break from his site, the popular political blog InstaPundit. Unique visitors fell to 115,000 from around 150,000, according to Site Meter.

Even so, Mr. Reynolds is glad he took the week off. "I need a vacation more than I care about the traffic," he says.'

We shall see...