Robby Porter lives in Vermont. He has worked as a furniture designer and builder, carpenter, solar electric installer, snow groomer, and hydroelectric plant operator.
When you hear that a book is a collection of thoughts a man wrote down for his kids to read one day, what comes to mind is something this book is not. It does not present as a grab bag of fatherly life lessons, though the voice of hard experience is there. ... Think of it as a treasure hunt ... in the fine company of a crazily-multi-talented individual - a Vermont farm raised, college educated, craftsman-philosopher who can dissect the workings of Wall Street as handily as he can build a gorgeous piece of furniture or drop an old wooden barn silo and knock out a couple of nifty saunas from the reclaimed wood. - Ricka McNaughton