Walk a Lonely Mile

Brian Paige is approaching midlife with a tangle of regrets, old mixtapes, and half-finished schemes. His latest idea-profiting off Nigerian currency exchange rates-fizzles, but it sparks a deeper reflection: how did his life, once so full of creative fire and youthful ambition, veer into so many dead ends?
From the loss of his grandfather in the early '90s to a complicated friendship with a girl from Florida in the 2000s, as well as a fraught connection with a fellow nostalgia-obsessed cinephile years later, Brian's journey weaves through decades of awkward growth, unmet potential, and quietly powerful moments of human connection. Along the way, he creates his own lo-fi album, reflects on people who faded from his life over time, and struggles to define what love-and success-really mean.
WALK A LONELY MILE is a deeply personal, sometimes humorous, memoir of near-misses, creative ambition and emotional fallout. For anyone who's ever tried to rewrite their past or squeeze meaning out of faded dreams, this is a story about what happens when you finally take a good, hard look back-and realize the only way forward might just be to barrel on through.

Brian Paige is an author who lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife, Amanda, and son, Andrew. He is a 2001 graduate of the University of Louisville with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, 2011 U of L graduate with a Master of Arts in Communication, and 2016 graduate of the University of the Cumberlands with a Master of Arts in Teaching in secondary social studies. He also has a self-produced album under the name Demo, Sonic Screamer.