Clean

Beth Broderick: Wit and Wisdom for the Ages from the Aged Podcast · Apr 23, 2024 · 9m

Wit and Wisdom

by Beth Broderick

“Your house is pathologically clean,” my old friend Lawrence said as he looked around.

I was in the Hollywood hills then, in a house selected by my first husband. He was someone who could not abide the notion of a fixer-upper, so we bought one that was turn-key, and moved into its rather sterile environs. We then proceeded to get unmarried toot sweet. Not a good fit for me. The man or the newy-looking home, but Lawrence was right, boy oh boy was that place clean.

The house I grew up in on Park Street in Huntington Beach, was not. It was flea-infested and…