Lucky Me

Beth Broderick: Wit and Wisdom for the Ages from the Aged Podcast · Feb 10, 2026 · 8m

Wit and Wisdom

by Beth Broderick

LUCK

The force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person’s life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities.

With my luck I’ll probably get pneumonia.

Good fortune; advantage, or success, considered as the result of chance.

He had no luck finding work.

A combination of circumstances, events, etc., operating by chance to bring good or ill to a person.

She’s had nothing but bad luck all year.

Some object on which good fortune is supposed to depend.

This rabbit’s foot is my luck.

-dictionary.com

I have written about luck before. It is a concept…