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I just published something honest. And terrifying.
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Hi, Reader! I just published my first post on my new Substack, Eating Adverbs. I had planned to use the Substack to share excerpts from my gratitude archive and build toward the book launch. But something happened in January that changed everything, and what came out instead was a post I wasn't planning to write: about retiring from my career, losing my identity, and realizing I'm living a chapter of my own book that I didn't know I was writing. It's called "The Bewildered Beginner," and it's the most honest thing I've put on the internet in a while.
You'll still hear from me on this list for book launch news - release dates, purchase links, events, that sort of thing. But the real writing lives on Substack now. If you want the honest, messy, in-progress stuff - that's where to find it.
Thank you for being on this list. It means more than you know. Tommy |
The Adverbial Life
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Issue #7 - 03/07/2026 The Adverbial Life Notes on Thriving Solo Greetings Reader! I went quiet for a few months. Not because I ran out of things to say, of course. If you know me at all, you know that’s never the problem. I went quiet because the book needed everything I had. And now, here’s the sentence I’ve been waiting to write: Eating Adverbs publishes this spring. The e-book arrives in May. The physical book follows in June. I’m not going to pretend that feels casual. It doesn’t. I...
Issue #6 - 10/19/2025 The Adverbial Life Notes on Thriving Solo Greetings Reader! Some beginnings arrive with fanfare. Others slip in quietly. It's odd to me sometimes just how unobtrusive a powerful beginning can be. This Eating Adverbs book project for instance, started with a simple ten-minute Zoom call with the publisher. There was nothing planned, nothing formed, no clear idea if I even had the capacity to write a book. We just chatted about my fascination with solo activities. But that...
Dear Reader, The big day is finally here. Writing Eating Adverbs has been (and continues to be) one of the most emotionally intense creative journeys of my life. Some days I swing from joy to overwhelm before I’ve even finished my coffee. But through it all, I’ve stayed grounded in one truth: this book matters. It started as an unformed idea, but slowly started to develop into a book. Then, somewhere along the way, it became something more. I remember a moment when the editor stopped during a...