Who Knew Aging Was a Plot Twist – The Book Page

Unfinished Wisdom Press

Who Knew Aging Was a Plot Twist is a blunt, funny, and deeply human guide for anyone who wakes up in midlife and realizes the script has changed. Combining lived memoir, practical research, and plenty of laugh-out-loud honesty, it leans into the surprises of identity, sex, work, grief, and desire with curiosity and compassion. Each chapter offers stories, short exercises, and journal sparks that let you reflect in the moment or dig deeper with the companion journal, while cross-cultural perspectives and clear, usable takeaways help readers rewrite worn scripts and find purpose, pleasure, and permission to be themselves at every age.

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This isn’t your grandma’s coloring book (though she’d probably love it too). Imagine bold tattoo-flash art reimagined on fierce older women who wear their stories in lines, ink, and laughter. Each page is a celebration of vitality, rebellion, and the kind of beauty that comes with living fully. Some prompts nudge you to reflect, others dare you to doodle outside the lines—but all of them invite you to play, pause, and see aging as art in motion.

It’s part meditation, part mischief, and all you.

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Hello!

👋 I’m Pam Abbott-Enz, a gerontologist, educator, teacher, writer, and fellow traveler in the messy, funny, and deeply human work of growing older. Welcome to my world! Here, I share stories, sparks, and reflections from a life spent studying aging while living through its plot twists myself.

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