Growing Old

Jackie Olsen
Counter Arts
Published in
5 min readJun 21, 2022

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Why it is and isn’t the end of the world

Aging woman’s face
Photo by Glen Hodson on Unsplash

I’ve had an article bouncing around in my head for months. What’s it like to grow older?

While I can’t speak for everyone, I can speak to my experience. I’m 55, in the liminal space between young and old, in a period of middle age that will probably extend for another 15 or so years, give or take.

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Jackie Olsen
Counter Arts

Come for the insights on aging, leave with a doggie bag full of frogs and exoplanets. Now more poems about vacuuming! she/her/hers