Preparing in an Apartment, Building a Community In the previous post, Super Urbanites, we laid the foundation for preparing for a disaster in an urban environment. In this post, we’re going to unpack it, specifically, we’re going to discuss water, power, food, hygiene, and comfort- a calm practical guide to assembling your first kit. Life unfolds how it unfolds. We’re full of good intentions but good intentions rarely become action. On the periphery, we’re distracted and rapt

Building a Community There are tens of thousands of experts on aging, and hundreds of thousands of books on the process of aging. However, the book that tells us as individuals how to age well, gracefully and with our faculties and agency intact has yet to be written. This post has very little to do with prepping as it relates to disasters. Rather, this is a conversation about how to maintain the dignity of those we love as they are near the end of their lives. Aging isn’t ab

Surely, smart phones represent the pinnacle of our supremacy as a technologically advanced species. You can make video calls to nearly anywhere in the world from anywhere in the world; use them to navigate almost anywhere in the world; shop online and take a picture of the occasional table and project it into your living room; you can even run a global business all from your phone. That’s a great deal of functionality and power in something so small. Cellphones and cars are a

Today I’m going to revisit a topic I covered in the posts Head Games , Peace of Mind and Attitude in the Storm . In these posts, I...

The other day, I had lunch with a buddy, and he mentioned that he and his wife are planning an international trip. Before leaving, she...

I’ve briefly written about our hyper-connected world in posts before. I’ve referenced globalization and the supply chain as they relate...

The unconditional love and unwavering loyalty of our comfort creatures AKA furry companions is surely one of our most cherished...

There was a bit more unpacking to be done on this topic, so I’m going to pick up where I left off. I’m assuming that you’ve used whatever...

Building a Community Sooner or later, we come face to face with our own mortality and that of those whom we love most. Aging is natural, frustrating, confusing, and inevitable. Aside from physical decline, we often watch loved ones lose their faculties to any number of frightening and incurable diseases. The fact that we’re all going to die is abstract early in our lives; however, as the years roll into decades, it becomes more of a certainty. Tragedy is an indiscriminate equ

One could argue that the city is the crowning achievement of man’s collective technological, economic, and cultural might and...

Too Much or Never Enough? A very dear friend passed unexpectedly in his sleep early morning on Wednesday, the 18th of January. I last...

In a previous post, I mentioned the sudden death of a close friend. His passing was a clear reminder to me to stop dragging my feet and...

Stories abound about a grandparent who grew up during the Great Depression and is still mistrustful of banks or the eccentric uncle who...