The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir
by:
Dee Williams (author)
Part how-to, part personal memoir, The Big Tiny is an utterly seductive meditation on the benefits of slowing down, scaling back, and appreciating the truly important things in life.More than ten years ago, a near-death experience abruptly reminded sustainability advocate and pioneer Dee Williams...
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Part how-to, part personal memoir, The Big Tiny is an utterly seductive meditation on the benefits of slowing down, scaling back, and appreciating the truly important things in life.More than ten years ago, a near-death experience abruptly reminded sustainability advocate and pioneer Dee Williams that life is short. So, she sold her sprawling home and built an eighty-four-
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780142181799 (014218179X)
Publisher: Plume
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
I recently became interested in tiny house living, so I thought this book would be a good place to start. I was attracted to the idea that somebody built their own tiny house, especially a woman, and wrote a memoir about their experience. I gave this book 3.5 stars because the book took a different ...
Dee Williams is at her best when writing about relationships. And though the subtitle suggests this book is about the building, it is really about the relationships changed and strengthened and even made because of the building. Williams' diagnosis of a serious heart condition caused her to recons...
Dee Williams was living the American dream, she had a college education, a well paying job, a mortgage and friends. She thought she was happy she should be right, she had it all. When a health crises slams into her she is faced with a new reality and must find what really matters to her. Her house, ...