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Personal Messages from Me to You…
Personal reflections, thoughts, views, and opinions worth sharing.
Many of these articles began as simple notes, observations, or messages written from personal experience. Some reflect lessons learned over a lifetime, while others explore challenges, decisions, and current events that shape my thinking. They are not presented as expert advice, but as thoughts and experiences shared in the hope that they may encourage, inform, or simply give you something worthwhile to consider.
Sometimes there is something I simply want to share or for you to know about. These personal messages come from life, experience, faith, family, and my journey along the way.
Well, this will take a little time…but let me give you the executive summary and then you can read more of the details if you want to. Executive Summary: Almost all of my time has…
note: first appeared April 2015 Wow! Normally I have my articles ready days in advance to be published each morning. This morning I held off on it because I wanted to share with you something…
Yeah, you’ve probably been wondering what happened to me…or have you? I prepared a whole bunch of posts ahead of time to make sure fresh content and resurrected articles kept getting posted to the website…
note: post originally appeared in September 2013, edited in 2019 This morning while I was eating my breakfast I was watching some footage of the events on 9/11/2001; I just started crying. While I was…
The Defender’s Creed by John Farnam I accept and understand that human predators exist. Criminal or terrorist, they take advantage of our civilized society to prey upon the weak. They represent evil and must be…
There are people that need us. Sorry that I didn’t come up with a more dramatic or attention getting title for this post. However, this is a pretty low-key piece of writing. But, it potentially…
Last month I began (re)posting my online book Escape from Tucson. At first there were quite a few readers. Now it appears that there has been a significant drop-off. And I have had a couple…
I really had to take the last 14 hours to get my emotions under control. Late yesterday afternoon I started hearing about the Virginia abortion law proposal and the Virginia Governor’s related statement. My emotions…
Originally Posted on August 1, 2015 by AH (editing on 1/31/19) This is an article I’ve put off writing, another one. But I have to write it, it is just something I have to do. What comes of it,…
Talk about an interesting 3 weeks…wow! A lot going on and time for me to share a few thoughts. I hope you liked the title of the post…I will change it to a “SitRep” in…
Question for you…Why should you visit and read yet another preparedness website? Great questions, answers hopefully live up to your expectations. However, my bias will show through right now. I have read a lot of…
Pretty broad question, eh? Maybe I should clarify the question a little bit… When will you be ready for a “grid-down” event? I hope all of you can answer “I am ready now” but realistically…
(from January 2016) I frequent a number of different prepper-related websites to stay in-tune with the pulse of preparedness from other perspectives. Most of the time, not always, it is pretty boring information that is…
I absolutely love mornings like this one! Here in the desert southwest it is in the 50’s, moisture in the air, sunny with high clouds, and nice enough for nothing more than a light jacket.…
Well, good morning folks! It’s been quite a while since I have done anything with the website…too long. A whole lot has changed in my life since I last posted anything. And if you remember…
