Welcome To steve tyler
Life Is Absurd, Beautiful, and Worth Every Story.
A retired Clinical Social Worker from the heart of Indiana opens his archives and lets you in with laughter, hard-won wisdom, and the kind of honesty you weren't expecting
About Us
The Man Behind the Stories
Steve Tyler spent his career as a Clinical Social Worker in Indiana listening to people, helping them navigate crises, and quietly cataloguing the absurdity all around him. Married to his wife Susan, father to Joe, Jimmy, and Jack, he brings to the page the same warmth and self-deprecating humor that made him a trusted presence in his community for decades. He didn’t start writing to be important. He started writing because the stories were too good not to tell.
About The Book
Somewhere Between a Gas Can and a Grateful Dead Concert, A Life Became a Book.
Steve Tyler has spent decades watching people at their most human as a husband, a father of three boys, a neighbor, a social worker, and an enthusiastic participant in his own disasters. Now he’s written it all down. Man, It’s All One Big Thing is a collection of true stories that will make you laugh out loud, catch you off guard with their tenderness, and remind you that the most ordinary moments are, somehow, the most extraordinary ones.
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What Readers Are Saying
Tyler’s background as a social worker shows throughout not in a clinical way, but in his genuine curiosity about people and his refusal to judge them, including himself. The Wedding chapter is brilliantly structured and laugh-out-loud funny from start to finish. Highly recommend to anyone who enjoys smart, honest writing about real life
Thomas B.
I gave this to my husband for his birthday and ended up reading it before he did. The Raising Riley chapter narrated from the dog’s perspective is one of the most creative and warmhearted things I’ve read in years. There is an enormous amount of love in this book, even in the chapters that are mostly about disaster.
Carol N.
I wasn’t sure what to expect from a book with a title like that, but the writing won me over immediately. Tyler has a voice that is completely his own, dry, warm, slightly philosophical, and always honest. The essay about his parents is quietly devastating. The one about the gas can is chaos of the best kind. I’ll be recommending this for a long time.
Andrew M.