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THE HUMOROUS SAGE™ SERIES

Wisdom Is Allowed to Have a Sense of Humor

The Humorous Sage™ looks at love, ego, fear, and ordinary human behavior with warmth, absurdity, paradox, and enough wisdom to be useful without requiring the reader to become unbearably serious.

WHAT THE SAGE KEEPS LOOKING AT

Familiar Human Territory, Turned Slightly Sideways

Each volume takes one ordinary human territory and turns it just enough for something useful—and sometimes ridiculous—to fall out.

LOVE

Attachment, Freedom, Longing, and the Stories We Tell

Chemistry, commitment, hope, independence, overthinking, and the mental paperwork people begin filing after receiving a three-word text.

EGO

Identity, Image, and the Need to Be Impressively Correct

Self-importance, defensiveness, identity, image management, and the heroic internal department responsible for making sure we are always right.

FEAR · IN DEVELOPMENT

Anticipated Catastrophe, Control, and Courage

Uncertainty, control, courage, and the mind’s remarkable ability to schedule emergencies that have not happened yet.

CURRENT BOOKS

Two Doors Are Open Now

The public series currently begins with Love and Ego. Fear is part of the developing series and will join the catalog when its book page and artwork are ready.

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LOVE

The Humorous Sage™ on Love

Wise, Tender, and Gently Ridiculous Reflections

A humor-first look at attachment, freedom, chemistry, commitment, overthinking, and the strange things perfectly competent adults do after developing feelings.

Explore On Love
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EGO

The Humorous Sage™ on Ego

Self-Importance Is a Horrible Decorator

A humorous wisdom book about identity, self-importance, defensiveness, image management, and the freedom of not taking the false self quite so seriously.

Explore On Ego

Future Humorous Sage™ volumes will appear here as their public book pages are ready.

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HUMOR FIRST, HUMAN ALWAYS

The Joke Is Never the Person’s Pain

The series uses humor to create perspective, recognition, surprise, and breathing room. It does not require ridicule, humiliation, or making vulnerable people the target. The point is to help the reader see more clearly while still feeling welcome in the room.

Warm

The humor is affectionate rather than harsh. It can expose absurdity without stripping anyone of dignity.

Clear

The wisdom remains understandable and practical. Humor opens the door; it does not replace the point.

Alive

Stories, reversals, playful literalism, and unexpected turns keep serious subjects from becoming embalmed by seriousness.

Begin with On Love

THE GUIDE IN THE ROOM

A Compassionate Trickster, Not a Comic Prosecutor

As The Humorous Sage™, Addison works through paradox, playful literalism, reversal, gentle misdirection, story, and the occasional strategically placed absurdity. The aim is not to win an argument with the reader. It is to loosen the knot just enough for another way of seeing to become possible.

About Addison

ENTER WHERE IT FEELS ALIVE

A Little Wisdom. A Little Nonsense. Ideally in the Correct Proportions.

Begin with On Love if relationships, freedom, chemistry, and overthinking are already occupying office space in your head. Or browse the wider BIG catalog and enter through a different doorway.