Lost and Found

Beth Broderick: Wit and Wisdom for the Ages from the Aged Podcast · Sep 17, 2024 · 7m

Wit and Wisdom

by Beth Broderick

LOST.

It started gradually enough. There was just a pesky hair missing here and there. No big deal, but in the last year there has been a mass exodus. My eyebrows have fucked off. They are so few and so pale that I cannot leave the house without a quick once-over with a pencil. Of course, those only come in colors like brown and weird taupe, orange-y hues that no longer match my silvery/white visage, so finding the right shade has been a daunting task.

This same phenomenon happened to my mother. Her eyebrows also just got up and left her face one day. She was…