Beth Broderick: Wit and Wisdom for the Ages from the Aged Podcast
Episodes
Busy, Busy.
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickIt’s that time of year when the world falls in love. Every song you hear seems to say, “Merry Christmas” or somet...
Clank. Rattle. Bang. Hum.
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickClank, rattle, bang, hum. Uh-oh.There were signs, of course. It had been clear for a good while that the machine which ...
A Matter of Taste
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickIt happens on a regular basis. I will poor myself a glass of wine from a favorite bottle of Chardonnay and think, “Ew...
Note to Self
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickThe note was written on a legal pad. It was a bit Catty Wompus, had been written hastily and not within the lines of th...
Wherefore Art Now?
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickBINGO! The story of how it came to be that I called BINGO wearing feathery garments and (for a time, at least) a tiara ...
Take Your Best Shot.
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth Broderick“Hey. I think I should check in with you more, like a lot more, if you are going to be on that medication.”My siste...
Don't Look Now.
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth Broderick“You shouldn’t be pretty. I mean, you are, but you shouldn’t be.”I was 27 years old at the time, and my friend ...
Oddness and Ends
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI am writing this while seated on a train, heading west to the historic Union Station in downtown L.A. My friend Don an...
Time in a Bottle
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI was sitting with an old friend in a comfy booth in the back of a very good Mexican restaurant on Ventura Boulevard. W...
Hot Brown Car
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickIt sits in the space next to mine, someone’s hot little brown car. I am told that it has been in the garage of my apa...
Hair Today Gone Tomorrow
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickIt was a rare sighting. I was on the floor at the gym doing some fancy ab moves, which required holding both legs strai...
With A Little Flare
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth Broderick“There’s a new injection that is proving very effective. We are seeing great results. It does have one black-box si...
Falling in Step
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI was in Fredricksburg Texas, sitting across from the twins. John and Don have been known in some circles as “The Gay...
The Long and Short of it
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickFour A.M. The alarm woke me out of a deep sleep and interrupted an odd dream. I have lost the plot of it now, but it in...
Farewell to "The DON"
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI said goodbye to a dear old pal on Sunday. Harvey “The DON” Siegel was one of the first people to truly befriend m...
With a Little Help ...
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickSome time ago, I just had to admit it: I need help. I have always been headstrong, determined to handle everything on m...
Science is Sexy
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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You are on the List.
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI have a lot of lists. Long lists and short ones, memos and notes. They are on my phone, on rolls of paper in my kitche...
Maniac
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth Broderick“You’re doing that? You’re up in the hills alone like that? On steep ridges?” my sister-in-law Sarah asked with...
Just My Luck
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickLuck.“The definition of luck is when preparation meets opportunity.” My mother said this to us many times when we w...
Forbidden Fruit
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickThey are everywhere. Lemons, oranges, and grapefruits are the most obvious, but tucked into corners or looming in the b...
Short Cut
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickMy hair is really short—way shorter than I wanted it to be. It looks fine, I guess, and blessedly is no longer purple...
Purple Reign
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI failed to read the directions. Just didn’t bother. The label seemed straightforward enough: “Color Extend Blondag...
Force Majeure
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth Broderick“Tell me the truth,” my nephew Conor said emphatically.He is not a blood relative, but I have been his Auntie Beth ...
California Strong
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI moved home to my native California two years ago. I was born and raised in Orange County but have lived in Los Angele...
On the Move
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI woke up in a new apartment on New Year’s Eve morning, the bedroom still full of boxes, the to-do list ever growing....
New Year. Old Me
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth Broderick“When you see me in February, I will look brand new.”My dear friend said this to me not long ago. At the time, we w...
Let's Talk Trash
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickCan we talk about trash? It is a subject that consumes many of my thoughts. I am borderline obsessive about it. I save ...
Setting Sail
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickMy last article was published on November 4, 2024, twelve days ago as of this writing. November 5th occasioned an elect...
Coyote Nights
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI saw her first: a lovely coyote walking just twenty steps ahead of us on the opposite side of the street. It was about...
A Matter of Time
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth Broderick“But there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them.” -Jim CroceHe died i...
Mirror, Mirror
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI have lived with Fairness the rescue pup for going on six months now. I will grant you that a lot of that time has bee...
Lost and Found
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickLOST.It started gradually enough. There was just a pesky hair missing here and there. No big deal, but in the last year...
Whirly Wind
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickOn Sunday, I was still trying to climb out of the fog of exhaustion that was clouding my thoughts. Having concluded a s...
"Rescue Me" The series. Chapter Five (continued): "Headless in Romania: Part 2"
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickMichael was worried about me in Romania. I was having a very hard time, and he had rarely known me to be so deeply depr...
"Rescue Me" The series. Chapter Five: "Headless in Romania"
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI am not one hundred percent sure, but I believe it was 2006 when I got on a plane and headed overseas to shoot a horro...
Big Boy and Boo Boo Drove Me To It ...
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI am going to press pause on the “Rescue Me” series to bring you a special report about very, very ordinary me. Af...
"Rescue Me" The series. Chapter Four: "Walta"
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickHow Walta found her way to us is anybody’s guess. MOMENTUM had been in existence for the better part of two years bef...
"Rescue Me" The series. Chapter Three: "Lovely Violets"
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI did it on a dare. It started in January of 1982. I was 22 years old and struggling to stay afloat in New York City. ...
"Rescue Me" The series. Chapter Two: "V"
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickMany years ago, I was walking down the hallway of an elite women’s day spa. I had already changed into my plush robe ...
"Rescue Me" The series. Chapter One: "Fairness"
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth Broderick“Fairness Fairness, the wonder dog.He is not a silly old frogHe is such a good, good boy.He is Mommy’s pride and jo...
Christmas in May
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI will be starting a new Christmas movie this week. It will be my tenth. It’s all a bit under wraps because this part...
Ouch!
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickOuch! Gol dang it!!!! I think I say this every single day of my life. It is rare that one goes by when I do not hit my ...
Clean
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth Broderick“Your house is pathologically clean,” my old friend Lawrence said as he looked around. I was in the Hollywood hill...
Model Citizen
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth Broderick“When you see me again in the new year, I will look brand new.” My dear friend said this to me just before Christma...
Mugsy and Babs and All...
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickSunday was the big MS walk in Los Angeles. I have participated in that parade of humans many times. I am certain to be ...
Altitude Attitudes
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickThe young man barely looked up. He took his seat beside me, with nary a glance in my direction. He immediately opened h...
LA Senora Idiota
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickFirst of all, “idiota” is not a word. The direct Spanish translation for female idiot is “estúpida,” but that ...
You Are Starting to BUG ME
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI brought him a strawberry. I know in hindsight that this was a ridiculous thing to do, but he seemed weak. I confess I...
Green Beans
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI sent one just the other day: a texted photo of a can of green beans. My sister, Laura, knows exactly what that means,...
Punches in the Air
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth Broderick“Mom, why are you hitting me?” I always tried to reason with her: “I am trying to help you.… Come on, Mama, we...
MINE
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickA bunch of white roses lay against the doormat. They had been bound together with a clear, two-inch-high band of tape w...
Come and Gone
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickWell, the Holidays have come and gone, leaving some of us with charmed memories and others with a sense of overwhelming...