When I was a young girl, my parents signed me up for self-defense classes. This quote was on the wall, and I’ve remembered it since:
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. [...]

Last night our kid didn’t sleep very well, and because of it, this morning I’m really dragging. To add to that, we have my parents visiting, and my husband is away training for days at a time. It all kind of changes our usual routine. So, I was sitting here this morning, catching up on [...]

From The New York Times, an article about the “new poor” – Those middle class people who lost their jobs a while ago, have you wondered what happened to them? (That is, if you’re not one.)

From Yahoo – I expect we will be seeing more of this.

Today I read an interesting article about how FEMA, frustrated in their efforts to get citizens to prepare, is considering some changes to the way they present the subject of preparedness to the public. One of the more interesting ideas (other than recruiting Oprah – and as a side note, can you imagine an episode [...]

I’ve decided to start posting what I’ve done to add to my family’s preparedness. Normally I’m going to try and make this a weekly article, if possible, to stay accountable and give myself some record of progress. This week I’ll cover the last two weeks, since that’s where I left off from my last inventory.
Between [...]

From Yahoo – here’s the link.

Yahoo: US debt will soon be unsustainable.

I love thrift stores. Part of it is that I really love finding a good bargain – it gives me a real sense of victory to discover something that someone else has cast off and to be the first to snag the treasure. The other part of it, though, is that as someone into preparedness, [...]

I finally have recovered from the nasty cold I had last week – or at least as much as I am going to while it’s still winter, and enough anyway to start working again on my family’s preparedness. It’s a never-ending project, of course, but an important one.
After almost a year of bouncing around from [...]