Malignant True Believers

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. – Winston Churchill On the way back home from my 30th birthday, I sat next to a 20-year-old, talkative Christian missionary to India. Aside from chattering about…

Apocalypse Report Card

Hunting:  1 Farming: 3 First Aid: 4 Gathering: 6 Hacking: 3 Sewing: 8 (don’t judge me!) Fishing: 5 Psychological Flexibility (read: won’t freak out): 8 Masonry: 2 Welding: 1 Hand-to-Hand Defense: 9 Weaponry: 8 Mechanics: 4 Diplomacy: 9 Fire Starting:…

Life Block

I am really good at starting projects. Insanely good. I will have lots of awesome ideas and go super far with them in the first week. I tell people, “you could make a fortune by following me around and finishing…