Dear Tiny House Hunters: Boy howdy, those tiny houses sure do look cool. I'm with you on this. They're like dollhouses that you get to live in. Everything is so neat, so compact, so pragmatic. Look...

dduane:

I wouldn’t mind an office this size. (Disclosure: for the past twenty years, my office has been one corner of a twelve-foot-by-ten-foot living room.) But a whoie house this size? No thank you.

I mean, do I love Peter? Yes. Do I love him enough to live in this size of a space with him?

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…From Chuck’s post, the paragraph that cuts to the core of this issue for me::

Austerity sounds virtuous. And for some people, it is the thing that motivates them, it is a part of who they are. For the rest of us, not so much. Fad diets often ask you to sacrifice things to which you’ve grown accustomed — and often things your body actually needs — under the auspices of getting healthy. I WILL CLEANSE MY BODY WITH JUICE AND SPROUTED GRAIN you think, and then someone walks by you eating a hamburger and some precious thing inside you snaps and next thing you know you’re on the city bus killing and eating people.