Chris Harrell, a student of Professor Courtney Baines’ at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, read and responded to the YES! Magazine article, “Living Large in a Tiny House,” by Carol Estes, a story about Dee Williams downsizing from a three-bedroom bungalow to an 84-square-foot house. He is our College winner for the Fall 2012 writing competition. Writing prompt: “If you had the choice, what size house would you live in? One of the most appealing aspects of the article to me was not the size of Dee’s house, but her admitting that purging her life of junk was liberating.