Adam Brown
Why are we here? Mostly to ask.
Songs, poems, hand-drawn books, and twenty years of notebooks — all circling the same question.
The Writing
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Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman
The newsletter. New work and old notebooks, sent when they're ready — no schedule promises.
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Why Am I Here?
A hand-drawn graphic novel made for my daughter Annie — a gift on Christmas morning, 2007. The question, in crayon.
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Skylar Sue
Hand-drawn picture-book adventures for a little one in the family. Mysteries in crayon and colored pencil.
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The Book of Fantasy
A novel written for my son — a birthday gift pulls ten-year-old Ethan into a strange new world.
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From the notebooks:
poems · songs · essays · a philosophy of life in longhand
— coming to the newsletter, one piece at a time!
About
I'm Adam Brown. I spent twenty-five years running technology for large companies. The whole time, I was writing — songs, poems, hand-drawn books for the kids in my life, a novel for my son, a philosophy of life in longhand.
Nearly twenty years of notebooks sit on my shelf, and every page circles the same question. I'm publishing the archive now, one piece at a time, and writing new work alongside it. The newsletter is where it all lands first.