A Life of Simplicity is more than an autobiography. The author, Thomas Conlan, first put pen to paper in his eighty-third year to recount his journey through life for the benefit of future generations. Having lived and experienced the turbulence of the twentieth century he held firm to the fact that life is always new and good. He trusted that the simplicity of its message might help bring clarity to anyone needing to know why we are here on this earth. Reading through its pages is a refreshing interlude between the growing urgencies pressing upon us in these current times of consumerism. The...