The Driveway Diaries: A Dirt Road Almanac Book by Tim Brookes

While working on a doomed book about commuting, Tim Brookes developed an odd affection for dirt roads. This led him to study his own driveway, a tiny dirt road, a masterpiece of inconvenience, a many-mooded borderlands in the balance of power between order and chaos. The The Driveway Diaries , a well-balanced mix of poignant and humorous observations about nature, the seasons and family life. Tim Brookes is the author of A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow , which was selected as one of the top travel books of the year by The New York Times and Booklist . He has lived for two decades in Vermont, where he teaches and writes.