If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

