Almost a thousand recipes, cooking ideas and information on cooking “homestead style” – simple, basic, home-grown ingredients, simple tools and old-fashioned recipes. For several years, I have gathered recipes and information from my friends, including many in the Old Order Mennonite community. A lot of these recipes are ones I use daily on our off-grid […]

Sean McDermott is a wisecracking private detective from New York City, with an extensive catalog of phobias. It’s an ok job, but it isn’t as exciting as most people think, and that’s fine by him. He makes it a rule not to get involved in active police cases or in any case where people are […]

Can we live like the middle class on a small income? Can we have a charming home, go on a shopping spree now and then, eat organics, throw great parties, and live like queens and kings on fixed incomes? Sure! You just have to learn all the thrifty and frugal ways of the wise and […]

A druid priestess enlists the help of an ex-Hospitaller warrior and a charismatic outlaw to fight Austrian tyranny in medieval Switzerland. A subtle blend of fantasy and history, Altdorf tells the events leading up to one of the greatest underdog stories of the medieval age, the Battle of Morgarten. “Re-imagining the William Tell legend—without William […]