Happy Birthday, Baby

How and why I wrote The Little Book of Living Small, plus the book I want to write next.

I have a long list of newsletter topics I want to write, but every time I sit down to commit to the next week’s topic I get skittish. Do they want to hear about sustainable lawns? I wonder. Have I yammered on too much about myself? I fret. Should these letters be more of a first-person read or should I stick to good old fashioned service journalism? 

My …