Time in a Bottle

Beth Broderick: Wit and Wisdom for the Ages from the Aged Podcast · Aug 14, 2025 · 7m

Wit and Wisdom

by Beth Broderick

I was sitting with an old friend in a comfy booth in the back of a very good Mexican restaurant on Ventura Boulevard. We were lingering after a hefty serving of fajitas with all the fixings.

“How is Lanny?” (Not her real name) I asked.

“Good, I think. She seems happy being retired. She got old … went gray, the whole shebang,” he answered.

I looked at him. He had, at that point, been sporting a head of gray hair for over two decades. The irony of this didn’t occur to him, nor did it cross his mind that the woman he was talking to (yours truly) had silvery white…