When I first got to college I had one of two majors in mind – chemistry or chemical engineering. (Why I picked those majors, in particular, is a whole other why-I’m-not-so-smart story.) I arrived on campus in the fall of 2001 with big, successful, break away, American dreams. After the tearful good-byes and the settling…
I cringed when I read how the Wannabe Homesteader described us in a recent guest post: I know of some homesteaders, I mean real homesteaders, who live a life completely off-grid and utterly detached from industrialized society. They live a simple, Christian existence surrounded by like-minded people and are dependent on no one except the…
It’s 85 degrees at 10 in the morning and the door is flung wide open to catch the breeze. Right behind that white wooden door I’m at the sink washing dishes. A soap-drenched rag goes round and round the plates which then go into a sink full of rinse water. I hear birds chirping, a…
Every once and awhile I run across an off-grid tool that promises a lot and actually delivers. These gems are few and far between since most products today oversell and underwhelm. So it is with some excitement that I finally get around to writing about the best off-grid flashlight I’ve ever used. The flashlight…
