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We all love our children. But despite that love, want to see parents cringe quickly? Tell them that they are going to be stuck inside with their children for three months or more. More than that, they cannot leave their home. That thought in itself is incredibly overwhelming! Add to […]
First off, if you’ve been here for any length of time, you know I am NOT an alarmist. I want you to read this article in that vein. I am NOT trying to scare people. Instead, I want people to be informed and make appropriate decisions. Don’t worry about this […]
We have some fun family traditions. Among these are a New Year’s Eve feast of steak and mushrooms for the entire family. The idea behind it is that we thank the Lord for the blessings of this last year and look forward to God’s goodness in the coming year. Another […]
In today’s economy, some of us want to diversify more than just the money that we invest – if we invest at all. I don’t know about you, but keeping all my money in a bank worries me. Last year, my husband and I needed to purchase a car because […]
Did you know that last month there was an Ebola scare in Sweden? A man showed up at a hospital in the town of Enkoping, Sweden vomiting blood. He was quickly transferred to the Uppsala University hospital. It’s easy to brush this off. I mean, it was only in Europe, right? […]
While I’ve lived through a tornado and a series of riots, I’ve never lived through a wildfire. The California Camp Fire devastated more than 146,000 ACRES. Heather Cleek, one of the readers here, lives just 15 miles from Paradise California and has a firsthand account of the fire to share with us […]
Okay, I can see the look on some of your faces. There’s no way to predict a riot, so how can you prepare? Well, truth be told, you can’t predict a tornado, a stock market collapse, or a wildfire. So really while preparing for a riot FEELS different, it’s really […]
I grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania. Not exactly considered tornado alley, but I can remember two distinct occasions where waterspouts (tornadoes over water) were spotted near our house. Because we weren’t plagued with tornadoes, we didn’t really even think about tornado preparedness. Well, my family didn’t think much about preparedness […]
On my “About Karen” page, I give you some of the details of our lives and how we got to where we are. In it, I mention that I don’t want to give away too much information on how the Ferguson Riots affected us because there would be an article […]
