This book is a collection of life stories written in four hundred words or less. If you think this might be a boring read then you underestimate Katherine Sharpe's editorial choices. Carefully selected from over three hundred entries, these stories are well written, funny, touching, tragic, and sometimes truly poetic. You only have to read a few pages before you ask yourself: Why didn't I think of this first? And then, what would I write about my own life? It is this thought that makes this such a jewel, the ability to make the specific universal and vice versa.