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“You will not make it here,” I was told. “You will want to leave, or we will have to ask you to leave… you are too young.”

The one sure way to get me to do something is to tell me that I can’t.

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#HappyNewYear #nostalgia
December 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"Did I remember to order the bow tie? Who am I forgetting? ... Did I get stamps? How many RSVPs do we have for the Christmas party?"

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#holidayseason #decembervibes #GoodShepherdHome
December 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"It was painfully clear that my darling device and I were approaching the last of our time together, that we would soon have to part."

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#ageless #bethbroderick #techhumor
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“Her countertops overflowed with her absolute favorite Caramel Popcorn, which she lost more than one tooth crunching into.”

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#agingtaste #sweettooth #substack
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“I have to do it.” I told my nephew Journey. “I have never done it, and I do not want to do it but, it’s got to be done.” …

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#onlinedating #ghosting #agewithconfidence
October 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"I made my entrance sporting a giant rainbow boa made of some kind of synthetic fabric that weighed a ton and was hot as Hades."

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#writing #dance #arts
October 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“It felt like an alien had straddled my cranium and was sucking up whatever good stuff might exist inside my head. The thing was the very definition of a “killjoy.””

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#GratitudeEveryday #ChronicIllness
September 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“You shouldn’t be pretty. I mean, you are, but you shouldn’t be.”

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#writing #aging #beauty
September 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"...if you had told me 20 years ago that I would not only agree to such an excursion but suggest it, I would have told you the notion was ridiculous. And yet."

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#livingfully #embracechange
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August 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"I had a manager who suggested several times that I engage in some strategic surgical enhancements. I never did. I had seen a lot of boob jobs at the gym. Some of the young women looked pretty good, but many more looked mutilated."

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August 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“Dad. You’ve lost eighty pounds in the last few months.”
 
“Well, old people lose weight. You’ve all got this wrong. I don’t have cancer. Period.”

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#life #aging #hospicecare
July 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“Our ears and noses continue to grow as well. Getting older has some good things to offer. This is not one of them.”

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#agingoutloud #realtalk
July 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“I think I’m going to go with suicide. It has got a nice ring to it,” I said.

She might have smiled, but I don’t know because she was wearing a mask.

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July 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“Well, I don’t know if you should do thaaaaat.” John remarked with his trademark laconic drawl. “You are kind of clumsy. No offense.”

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#substack #rescuedog
June 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“There was one such couple here this morning, and if we are going by appearances—and this is America, so we mostly do—they look fresh, confident, and sure-footed, while the rest of us appear shell-shocked and are scuffling about.”

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#whatmattersmost
June 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“When I first knew him, he was a bon vivant, a man about town. He seemed to know everyone, and where the ladies were concerned, many of them intimately.”

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#substack #witandwisdom #friendship
May 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"My response to that significant marker of age has been to load myself into a cannon and shoot myself into an orbit of constant activity. A touch of mania, perhaps?"

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#substack #witandwisdom #modernaging
May 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
April 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"I am sure that there are clinical reasons for this, and equally sure that I do not give a fig what they are."

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#busylife #la #writing
April 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Su presencia, discreta pero luminosa, ha inspirado a generaciones que, frente a la pantalla, hallaron en ella un faro de inteligencia, elegancia y fortaleza. 3/3

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April 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Como actriz, directora y voz comprometida, Broderick ha tejido con sutileza una huella profunda en la historia de la televisión. 2/3
April 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Puede que el nombre de Beth Broderick evoque, para muchos, la imagen serena y sabia de la tía Zelda en la entrañable Sabrina, la bruja adolescente, pero su legado se extiende mucho más allá de los confines de un solo papel. 1/3
April 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
“A few more years. I have promised myself that when I am 68, I can have toast.”

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#healthylifestyle #witandwisdom #BethBroderick
April 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“Was I lucky to have drawn the Queens? Unlucky because my tablemate drew the Aces?”

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#substack #america #witandwisdom
March 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“He threw his hands up in the air and laughed, relieved to have an explanation.”

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#california #whenlifegivesyoulemons🍋
March 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM