It is very easy to forget in our modern times of the internet and instant heat, cooling, food and shelter that people use to live a much simpler and much harder life before the advents of the modern comforts we take for granted every day. The Native...

The impact of a disaster takes a toll on everything, but the biggest issues for most is power and communication. When you are stuck without power, your phone’s battery trickles away, eventually leaving you without a means to communicate with family...

All of our lives would be drastically impacted if either a man-made or natural EMP disaster happened.  It would not take weeks, or even months, to repair the power grid and all aspects of modern life, but years! If the vital piece of United States...

  I am learning how to prepare in 26 bite sized lessons—one for each letter of the alphabet. I’ve covered A, and Q, so on to the letter C. C is for “case lot sale” (it could also be for Costco). Today I’m talking about storing the kind of food...

How many of us, when we were still infants, cried “doctor!” when sick? I always cried “mom!” The chief cook and budget master is usually the one delegated to be a general practitioner when it comes to home medicine. If only mom could cure as she...