The Circuitous Path — A Series of Books by Stephen Taylor

A Series of Books

The Circuitous

Path.

cir·cu·i·tous /sərˈkyo͞oədəs/ adjective

"indirect; not straightforward; going around in a roundabout way to reach a destination."

Life's most beautiful destinations are rarely reached by straight lines. A series of books on love, work, and the detours that turn out to be the destination.

About the Series

Not every journey follows a plan.

Most lives are not straight lines. Careers twist. Loves are found late. Businesses are built in living rooms, sold decades after they began, and started again on the other side of loss. The paths we remember most vividly are almost never the direct ones.

The Circuitous Path: is a series of books about those routes—the detours that turn out to be the destination. Each book carries the same stem—The Circuitous Path:—and then follows with the domain it travels through. New titles are added as they are written, each one a chapter in an ongoing exploration.

Taken together, the books form a library of lived wisdom from one person's long, curious, winding path—and an invitation to the reader to find meaning in the winding of their own.

Available Now · 2026

The book that opens the series.

The Circuitous Path:

Through Entrepreneurship

Kimberley and Stephen Taylor's Curious Adventures

AuthorStephen Taylor Pages176 ISBN978-0-9626718-8-3

The Circuitous Path: Through Entrepreneurship is part love story, part business memoir, and part proof that life's most beautiful destinations are rarely reached by straight lines. For dreamers, doers, and anyone who's ever wondered what if — this is an invitation to chase the light.

Woven throughout is the hard-won wisdom of bootstrapping a business without venture capital, writing patents at the kitchen table, finding manufacturers, and protecting what you build. Not business theory from a classroom — wisdom earned through decades of curiosity, resilience, and partnership.

Beyond the page, this book is also the foundation of the Kimberley Taylor Music-Entrepreneur Fellowship at Hillsdale College — every applicant reads it as part of the selection process. The fellowship is funded by an endowment established in Kimberley's honor and memory, and continues her belief in young entrepreneurs in perpetuity.

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Also Available · A Series Companion

Everything nobody taught you.

A Book by Kimberley & Stephen Taylor

How to Be Classy

In Spite of Yourself — Everything Nobody Taught You about Making a Remarkable Impression

AuthorsKimberley & Stephen Taylor PublisherUniversity Extension Press FormatAvailable on Amazon

How To Be Classy In Spite of Yourself is a warm, practical companion for anyone who wants to move through life with greater confidence, self-respect, and ease. Drawn from decades of seminars, workshops, and real-world observation, Kimberley and Stephen Taylor offer a thoughtful guide to making a remarkable impression — not through wealth, status, perfection, or performance, but through care.

At its heart, this book is built on a simple idea: Class is being comfortable enough with yourself that you help others feel comfortable, too. Through the three essential areas of appearance, communication, and behavior, readers are invited to refine the quiet details that shape how others experience them — from posture, grooming, and an edited wardrobe to listening, speaking, trustworthiness, composure, punctuality, and grace under pressure.

Written in Kimberley’s warm, first-person teaching voice, How To Be Classy In Spite of Yourself is a shared classroom, built from years of teaching, watching people with kindness, and believing in the best in everyone we meet. Supported by over forty research citations and accompanied by reflective worksheets and companion resources, the book offers a gentle path toward becoming more polished, more thoughtful, and more genuinely present in the lives of others.

Because it is never too late to become the best you can be.