Never on a Sunday

Beth Broderick: Wit and Wisdom for the Ages from the Aged Podcast · Oct 13, 2026 · 7m

Wit and Wisdom

by Beth Broderick

“Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, and eight hours of sleep. That is the ideal.”

I looked at him in disbelief; surely, I had heard him wrong?

“Who on earth can do that?”

“Very few, of course. It is the ideal, but that is rarely achieved. There are meals to prepare and pajamas to put on, teeth to brush and stories to read, but that is a different kind of work, one that nurtures us, so we allow it into the play category.”

My wonderful therapist Gary explained all of this to me one day as we were working through my continued, will-never-shake-it…