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1 week ago | 
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Beth Broderick dives deeply into her personal experience to deliver a weekly essay full of wit, wisdom, and stories from the heart. Beth Broderick dives deeply into her personal experience to deliver a weekly essay full of wit, wisdom, and stories from the heart.
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2 weeks ago | 
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Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI have a lot of lists. Long lists and short ones, memos and notes. They are on my phone, on rolls of paper in my kitchen, sticky-noted to my laptop, and pasted on the walls. These lists are meant to keep me on track, keep the larder stocked and the business of life flowing. The problem is not that there are no lists. I’ve got them up the wazoo.
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1 month ago | 
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Wit and Wisdomby Beth Broderick“You’re doing that? You’re up in the hills alone like that? On steep ridges?” my sister-in-law Sarah asked with a look of concern. When she put it that way, I had to admit it sounded a tad off the beam. I had been explaining that I feel more confident hiking in the hills and on the ridges alone with my dog Fairness, because my pal Dean gave me a cane with a stun feature on it that can ward off an attack from human or animal, should need be.
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1 month ago | 
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Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickLuck. “The definition of luck is when preparation meets opportunity.” My mother said this to us many times when we were growing up. It has a nice “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” Americana feel about it, a nod to the work ethic bestowed upon us by our Puritan ancestors. That is not, however, the definition of luck.
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2 months ago | 
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Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickMy hair is really short—way shorter than I wanted it to be. It looks fine, I guess, and blessedly is no longer purple, but dang it, why so short? The fellow who has been taking care of it for me is lovely and kind, and I am a bit fascinated by him, so I was maybe not paying enough attention to the “hair” part of the appointment and too much to the “him” part. He does house calls, and I needed a trim.
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2 months ago | 
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Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI failed to read the directions. Just didn’t bother. The label seemed straightforward enough: “Color Extend Blondage.” It is supposed to tame any of the dreaded brassy notes a gal’s hair may pick up in the sunshine or under a hot dryer. It’s not dye; it is just a simple mask. The way I make a living is not entirely based on looks. One has to have talent, “chops” as it were, but the right look is also a crucial component to success in the film and TV game.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
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Wit and Wisdomby Beth Broderick“Tell me the truth,” my nephew Conor said emphatically. He is not a blood relative, but I have been his Auntie Beth for as long as he has been alive. He is 100% my family. “Am I being a baby, or have the last few years just been impossibly hard?”“You are not a baby. The last few years have been impossibly hard.”For young people trying to carve out careers in the entertainment industry, the climb has not been just uphill.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
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Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickOuch! Gol dang it!!!! I think I say this every single day of my life. It is rare that one goes by when I do not hit my head on a cupboard door, bang my hip bone into a countertop, find myself mopping up a mess of some kind. I have been known to walk into glass doors, have missed the bottom step countless times, and will trip over anything, often actually nothing. Just fall for no apparent reason.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
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Wit and Wisdomby Beth BroderickI have lived with Fairness the rescue pup for going on six months now. I will grant you that a lot of that time has been spent away. Even when one is filming in Los Angeles, the hours of work outside of the home are long and many. I started a production two days after he settled in as my guy. He was technically a foster, but I don’t play with that kind of thing. Once he arrived, he was mine.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
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Wit and Wisdomby Beth Broderick“But there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them.” -Jim CroceHe died in a plane crash at the age of 30. Today is Tuesday. I am supposed to be in your inbox with this piece of insightful prose, but I ran out of time. After returning from a four-day work trip to Scotland and the ensuing brief recovery period, during which dog food supply was replenished and groceries were put in cabinets.
