Time to write has been a fleeting thought recently. It’s been a nonstop barrage of program sites, meetings, pitches, phone calls, after hour events, and what felt like a 3 week birthday celebration all since I last wrote. I’m sitting here in the new Speak Easy space a week before it opens to the public, […]
Sometimes movement is just to move, without direction or even purpose, but simply because I didn’t know what else to do. It’s before 6AM and I’m watching the sun rise on a house boat floating away on Dale Hollow. It’s the last morning of a much needed vacation and disengagement from the entirety of society. […]
There’s a moment where, on the brink of success or failure, you know that your own history will be made–one way or another. And once you’ve been in that position, there are few other moments in life that will compare. I’ve experienced it as an athlete, and now; I’m staring down the next 71 days […]
A note to a soon to be 25 year old me from a soon to be 30 year old me. Dear almost 25 year old Tom, You’re going to go through some heavy stuff. It’s going to be absurd at times. You’re going to get your heartbroken a time or two. But you’re also going […]
I ask this question all the time. I truly believe it’s one of the best ways to gauge what really drives someone, how full of it they are, and what their poker face looks like. The more sugarcoated the answer, the more I’m skeptical. In fact, it’s right up there with watching how somebody interacts […]
“Now my parents said, go ahead and take your stand, but don’t be too proud to have a backup plan” -Watershed It’s been a pretty unbelievable last couple of months. Major press, deals that are moving forward, vision that is turning into reality. My dream, it’s happening, and it’s the damnedest thing to experience. The […]
It’s Pride Week in Indianapolis, and that means one of my favorite weekends of the year here in this great city. What I love about Pride Week is that here in Indy, it’s not about “letting this be the one week a year where you can be yourself”…it’s about highlighting that in Indy, we celebrate […]
The road goes on forever and the party never ends, right? Wrong. I’m always a mix of emotions when standing over Jim’s gravestone. But what I kept thinking about yesterday on the 6th year of his death and as I let the whiskey burn the back of my throat was how when the party of […]