Your imagination is a theater with a full cast of characters. They compete for your attention. Some praise your intelligence and wit. Others shred your sense of self-worth. Some call you creative or inspiring. Others recite your failures.

In Your Task Is To Be Admired, those inner characters pull on disguises and tell their stories. They speak as flowers, birds, logs, water and even a slice of bread. Like the iris in this book, their only task is to be admired, but they stumble around in a labyrinth of emotions. One moment they dance with wild joy. The next they fall into a pit of...

The 6th book of Small Scale Stories: Only Slightly Off Kilter is full of love letters to the planet. The photographs and their tiny stories celebrate amorous stones, lonely turtles, cheeky thistles, teasing koi, and many other characters who inhabit the world around us. Even a fire hydrant and a townhouse become characters in these short tales.

The full-color photographs are stunning on their own, but the micro stories that accompany them encourage readers to take a closer look at the world around them. This collection was inspired by an osprey pair that incorporated a big plastic...

If we want to change something, we have to change the stories we tell about it. So this is a good time to talk about changing the stories we tell about this amazing planet and all that's on it. The 7th book in the Small Scale Stories book does just that, giving voice to flora and fauna and even a crane and a park bench.

We need their stories because they help us to respect and look after the storytellers, whether we consider them animate or inanimate.

Anyone can help tell nature's stories. Sit at a wooden desk, and think about the tree it came from. Smell a flower, and...