The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir

Dee Williams’s life changed in an instant, with a near-death experience in the aisle of her local grocery store. Diagnosed with a heart condition at age forty-one, she was all too suddenly reminded that life is short, time is precious, and she wanted to be spending hers with the people and things she truly loved. That did not include the mortgage payments, constant repairs, and general time-suck of the beautiful sprawling house in the Pacific Northwest she had painstakingly restored. The perks — multiple extra rooms, a kitchen stocked with top-of-the-line appliances — couldn’t compare with the financial freedom and the ultimate luxury — time — that would come with downsizing.