Using a Knife
Learning and teaching the skill of using a knife will go a long way in boosting confidence and self reliance in any individual, from the home schooled child to an older adult who wants to make their own way in the world. These steps should help teach us the important skill of using a knife.
Best Hangover Cure – Just Plain Water

The best hangover cure really isn’t a cure at all, it’s a preventive measure, and it can be found running out of your tap, usually into the kitchen sink. The cure is plain water. I know it sounds just too simple to be true, but it works quite well when you think you’ve had a [...]
Life Planning Ideas – Articles Revisited

I think life planning is important, so I’m using another Friday to dip into the archives to explore this topic a bit more. Many of us engage in “default” planning, that is reacting to what’s going on around us. To a certain extent, that’s necessary, but for enhanced success and happiness, we need to make [...]
Relationship Advice – What the Boss Checks, Gets Done

This bit of relationship advice comes to mind based on an experience a friend had recently. He was trying to buy something from a stranger, and he acted on their promise that the item would be held for him until he arrived to pay for it. The promise wasn’t kept, and this led to disappointment. [...]
Planning our Lives – Articles Revisited

Planning our lives can seem like an odd task, especially when our lives get swept up in so many things. Nevertheless, it’s important to engage in life planning because if we don’t, we might end up going in an unknown direction. That’s not always bad, but I think most of the self-reliant among us would [...]
Hints and Tips – Articles Revisited

Quite often we’re throwing hints and tips at you in various categories like driving, raising chickens, pole vaulting, you name it. Occasionally, we have a great trick, tip or hint that doesn’t fit within our 203 hierarchical categories. In such cases, we slip it into our category called Miscellaneous How-to, Hints and Tips. It’s a [...]
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