Too Old For This Sh*t

Too Old For This Sh*t

Backwards "Progress," Baby Steps and Being Sidelined When I Ache to Be Back in the Game

Too Old for This Sh*t: How to Take Your Life Back from an Ageist Society

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JULIA HUBBEL
Aug 09, 2026
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A woman performing leg press exercise in a modern gym.
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On starting over…and over…and over

God I hate do-overs. Hate editing, albeit I sure get dedicated to do-overs after I’ve hit the Publish button and realize, oh shit. Typos.

Hate rewrites, getting lost and driving the same road several times over. Having to start over. And over and over and over.

That, however, is very much life, especially after fifty, especially after lots of physical activity. Injury, accident, disease- notwithstanding just life, which these days involves fire, hurricane, tornado, tsunami and Trump, just saying.

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