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Note To My Readers

In the few weeks my new website has been up, I have been overwhelmed by notes of thanks and appreciation. Thanks for your kind words- However>>>
Down through history the concept of patronage developed where the viewers of art bought some of the artist’s work to keep him eating and thus produce more of the works they liked to view.
My goal is to help people benefit from my experience and make their lives a bit easier, including survival. Writing is my livelihood- no corporate wealth support here.
All of these books are Ebooks and are priced at $4.95 but for a few, and are delivered by immediate download at the instant of ordering and paying PayPal ( in any currency). ANY of my books are better than the blogs you like. I know you can afford it or you wouldn’t be on line or you wouldn’t have a computer.
If you like what you read ( think about how great the book will be) Tell your friends.
If you don’t like something, Tell me- so I can fix it- if possible.
The bottom line is that if you want me to continue writing, more of you must buy books. Otherwise, the artist will starve and ALL of these blogs will disappear..
Every freebie has a price.
Now, to content:

Disaster Preparedness Series

This is our most important contribution toward our goal to help others. Until you are faced with a disaster situation, you probably will not appreciate this. I urge you to take a serious look at these books BEFORE your place is a pile of rubble or ashes, has just plain disappeared, or is going gurgle-gurgle in flood waters.

The Basic Rule here is ON YOUR OWN. We have learned plenty over more than 60years and our goal is to transfer our experience and knowledge to those who follow us. The books are all based upon our personal experience, except the Terrorism Compendium. Until recently, terrorism was an experience that someone else had, but not us.

It is all about Family.   Your survival after a disaster should include keeping your job. The amount of time you need to recover and arrange care for your family after a disaster is proportionate to your preparation BEFORE a disaster. Besides, how long will your employer keep a job opening if you aren’t there?

War Veterans – Trauma

With the added emphasis of Stress Trauma in returning military from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, note that The Stress symptoms and treatment do not change, whatever the source of stress happens to be. The book,

First Aid For Disaster Stress Trauma – A Guide and Self-Help Manual

, is appropriate for this purpose, too.

Note that our books are only available as E books- there are no printed copies for sale. It is our way of providing the information contained at the lowest possible price. The cost of printing and shipping more than doubles the price. Secondary sales, such as Amazon, more than doubles the price again, as they exact 55 percent commission, plus a “membership fee”, plus shipping to their warehouses, plus shipping charges to the customer.

Purchase through PayPal makes each book instantly available for downloading. We never see your credit card, only confirmation of your order through PayPal

We can only pray that each customer , in the name of personal integrity, does not freely share his Ebook with friends and neighbors. That way, our one-man operation continues to serve as a livelihood.

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Disaster Planning

No matter where you live or your position in life, sooner or later you are going to be faced with a disaster, most of you more than once. As we have seen in New Orleans or anywhere along the coast of the Indian Ocean, you will be ON YOUR OWN, so plan on it. Three days food and water storage to hold you and your family before help arrives is not a realistic plan, as we have recently seen.

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Information Relative To Making A Living

Maybe it is time to become self-employed.

We made a good living from the Ceramics Craft for many years. How we did it is the product of these books as well as the technical topic of the books.

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Alternative Energy Applications and Energy Conservation Series

Am I a conservation activist? Not in the sense that I go out and hug trees or picket a polluter, but I have spent a lifetime trying, by example, to demonstrate how to conserve energy, reduce pollution, and use alternative energy sources. Those points are emphasized in most of my books. Some people get my message and others will not get it, until it hits them right between the eyes. There’s an element of SURVIVAL here, too. Keeping warm or cool is not an option; it is a family matter.

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Edible Plants- Wild and Domestic – Series

Eight years went into the identification, listing, photography, and finding out how to prepare all of these nearly 3000 plants for eating, as well as proofing many of them. You need never to go hungry with this information. Gardening, as well as eating is also a family matter.

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Books For Everyone

These books are for general pleasure and do not fit into a specific Series

Two of the following books are autobiographical. We have been there, done that. Yes, it takes time, but Fern, my wife and I, had done things together for over 62 years. Several of these books are hers, and many more have us as co-authors. We were compatible and nothing in these books was accomplished solo. We had been business partners for over 40 years. You might want to take a look at them. They are also part of a recipe for a happy, compatible marriage. Fern passed on in 2010, but her art and writing lives on forever.

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New Economy

Books For People Who Want To Help Themselves

This Series could also be called Survival Guide to Hard Times. Its purpose is to enable living to continue in the face of job loss, inflation, market crash, limited fossil fuel, and/or economic depression.These books make unique contributions to the Money Problems, otherwise known as the New Economy, answering to any or all of these factors.:Inflation is reducing the purchasing power of the dollar.

Out of control spending has created us as a debtor nation in the world community. Less oil available by whatever means means transportation problems that will realign our entire culture. READ THESE BOOKS.