My Journey Begins Where the Road Ends

"Back to the simple earth" - Tom Conlan comes by his love of the land naturally, generations after a beloved grandfather worked and saved to escape Detroit and move north. Conlan inherited that longing; he reveled in his boyhood of treeforts, baseball, and Sloppy Joes, even as it was unfolding. He revels in it still, with graceful language and long thoughts, with good dogs, good horses, and even better homemade wine. - Mardi Link, author of The Drummond Girls and Bootstrapper



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"Deeply moving...told with all the tropes a good poet would use ... Vivid Description ... a delightful sense of humor ... a novelist's skill with scene and feel for dialogue ..." - Cathy Smith Bowers, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina



"... close to being a prose poem ... intense, lyrical nature writing." - Emily Fox Gordon, author of Mockingbird Years



"Lovely Vignettes." - Peter Stitt, editor, The Gettysburg Review