Tom Ryan, Author
Letters from the the Cape Cod National Seashore...and Beyond
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- Sep 29, 2026
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September’s What Are You Reading? (opens the original)
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For those of us who love books, there is no such thing as reading season. But autumn sure feels like it. The descent into darkness and shorter days. The cool, crisp air. The coming of storms and early nights inside. They all conspire to make us desire slow times, cozy times. Books are comfort food for the spirit. A good story seems to wrap itself around us and carry us toward comfort and coziness.My recent and current reads reflect that need as I embrace more fiction after a summer of non-fictio
Finding Normalcy After 3 Months on the Road (opens the original)
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Postcards from the Open Road: A Morning Walk at Lake Superior (opens the original)
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Our Last Stop: Stowe, Vermont (opens the original)
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We Get Around: Hanging with a Deer Family at Carson McCuller’s Grave (opens the original)
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You’ll be surprised when I tell you where we are waking up.First, you should know that when we move—we move.We said goodbye to the stately bison of the Great Plains and hung out with the Great Lakes and some literary ghosts for a few days. Now we’re opening our eyes in Yonkers. Yes, Yonkers here on the edge of New York City.(Don’t you love how wonderfully silly that name is? It derives from the Dutch and means young gentleman, and goes back to who used to be on this land after the o
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