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A Life Fully Lived and Faithfully Reported
Steve Tyler grew up in Indiana and spent most of his adult life there, which, as anyone who has read his writing will quickly understand, gave him an extraordinary amount of material to work with. After studying Philosophy and Psychology at Indiana University (a combination that, as he has pointed out, prepared him for everything and nothing simultaneously), Steve went on to earn a Master’s Degree in Social Work and built a decades-long career as a Clinical Social Worker. Along the way, he married Susan, a nurse with an extraordinary tolerance for chaos and a gift for keeping things running. Together, they raised three sons, Joe, Jimmy, and Jack, each of whom appears in these pages and has inherited, to varying degrees, their father’s flair for the unexpected.
The Observer in the Room
Steve has spent a lifetime being the person in the room who notices everything: the sag in the gable no one else will acknowledge, the slightly suspicious receptionist sizing him up, the small moments of grace tucked inside the most mortifying experiences. He is, at his core, a gifted observer of the human condition, and a deeply honest one.
The Book He Was Always Going to Write
Man, It’s All One Big Thing is the book he was always going to write. It is the culmination of sixty-plus years of living with his eyes wide open, his ego firmly in check, and his sense of humor fully intact.
A NOTE ON THE TITLE
The title comes from a man Steve once gave a ride to a hitchhiker named Alfred Brundage who was on his way to a Native American spirit dance. Somewhere on a highway in Indiana, Alfred offered what may be the simplest, most accurate description of the universe Steve has ever encountered:
“Man, it’s all one big thing and it just does what it does. That’s all you really need to know.”
Steve has been thinking about it ever since.