When I was 35 and newly divorced I kept myself busy (staying home nites with kidlets) by crocheting. I dated a fellow that looked at an afgan I had recently completed and he said " you must have a lot of time on your hands, only old ladies crochet!". I was blown away! I have been sewing since I was 4 yrs old, recently took up quilting (couldn't ever figure out why any sane person would cut up perfectly good fabric into little bitty pieces, just to sew it back together again!). I am now collecting Social Security, have had both hips and knees replaced and some would say I am old. I don't think so! I am a proud Red Hat member, a quilt guild member, I go to a Newcomers Club here in AL where I just moved from CA, I go to church, I go to lunch and dinner, the theater, I am active (don't hike anymore, but love to dance) and don't sit around the house much! Old, I think not! Maybe it is a state of mind, but I have been out of my mind for years now! Linda