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For years, I’ve been interested in wild edibles and healing plants. I wish I knew someone locally with whom I could apprentice, but alas, I do not. The next best thing I can do then is travel to the experts when possible and read everything I can get my hands on. One of the great […]

According to the Legislative Analyst’s Office in California, it costs the state over $47,000 to house a convicted prisoner for a year. 2/3 of the cost are for security and healthcare expenses. Those figures are from 2009 and have probably increased significantly since then. $47,000. That’s a lot of money to incarcerate a single individual for […]

Shared literature is one of the best parts of adolescence, I think.  It takes some doing on the part of the parent, but I think it is well worth the effort for the connection you can make with your child(ren). One good possibility is the Hunger Games trilogy, but I want to share a lesser […]

How will life as we know it come to an end? Will be it through some cataclysmic event such as an EMP that destroys all technology in the blink of an eye? Will it be through an economic collapse that suddenly causes a governmental collapses and thrusts countries into utter anarchy? Authors in the apocalyptic […]

Are you being tracked at this very moment? Are you sure? Would you bet your life on it? The End of Marking Time That’s the premise of The End of Marking Time by CJ West. The book takes place four years into the future. During those four years, the world has changed. Significantly. The US […]

I recently finished reading a classic. I think I was supposed to have read back in high school, but didn’t. In retrospect, I’m glad that I didn’t since if I had, I probably wouldn’t have picked up again now. This short book chronicles they life of Buck, a dog who is stolen from his posh […]

Almost a year ago, the Assistant Surgeon General for Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta wrote a post on his official blog entitled, “Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse.” It quickly caught the attention of the some in the main stream media including Fox News. Some thought it funny; some thought it odd; some thought it was a […]

I’ve noticed an increase in EMP/solar flare stories lately.  It’s a great event for a novel since the circumstances become dire so quickly and you can jump right into the action of survival.  I read another one recently that I thought you may enjoy:  Terawatt. This story is set in the summer in Texas at […]

I have been concentrating my reading time on gardening related topics lately and in my shift of focus, I have forgotten to review some of the books I enjoyed this winter.  One of those was Surviving the Fog by Stan Morris.  I was only prompted to remember my oversight by the recent realization that the […]

Sunday, March 11, is the one-year anniversary of the nuclear disaster of Japan’s’ Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant  and so, in consideration of that, I have a very fitting book review. You know my penchant for novels in the preparedness and disaster-survival vein, so several weeks back, I downloaded a few more for my Kindle.  One that […]