The Long and Short of it

Beth Broderick: Wit and Wisdom for the Ages from the Aged Podcast · Jun 3, 2025 · 9m

Wit and Wisdom

by Beth Broderick

Four 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 involved my old colleague Nate Richert, who played Harvey on Sabrina. We were college students, and he was in trouble, and I was trying to get him out of it. That’s all I’ve got; the particulars of the story are lost to the night. The dream is good news in that it means I was actually asleep and not in the fitful twilight which often precedes a plan to bash into an early and very long morning.

Nate is not, for the record, a guy who gets in…