Byline: Nancy Sheehan It's Grammy-nominated American humorist David Sedaris on the phone and he is talking on and on about the little things in his life. There doesn't seem to be any big ones. He talks about how most of what he writes ends up in the trash can and how he loves that it is cool even in summer in France, where he has lived many years. Then, he is talking about how a shrew is like a mole in that it has to eat every 24 hours or it will die.