Living a Deliberate Life
Glen Ellyn author balances nature and the modern world in new book
Tom Montgomery Fate is someone with a very busy schedule. Sitting in his College of DuPage office, Fate, an English professor of 21 years, is surrounded by shelves of books, his computer and plenty of desk space. He leads a typical modern life with working at his job, raising his family in Glen Ellyn. During a sabbatical a few years ago, Fate, 50, and his family immersed themselves in the solitude of a cabin in Sawyer, Mich., stepping away from hectic, every day trappings. It is there that Fate, with the literary influence of nineteenth-century author Henry David Thoreau, applies the author’s insights about nature to a 21st century modern life. Fate captures his experiences with vivid imagery in his nature memoir, Cabin Fever: A Suburban …
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