I remember when the COVID pandemic first hit in early 2020 and grocery store shelves were wiped out. And waiting on lines for hours just to get into stores that didn’t have most of the stuff I needed.

Water, eggs, meat, produce. Scarce. People fighting over the last loaf of bread. That was a scary time. And don’t get me started on the toilet paper hoarding, but that...

When I was a kid, my dad would take me out to Montauk on the weekends to do some fluke fishing. Before we got on the Lazy Bones or whatever other boat we were going on, we would take a walk around the dock.

I was always amazed when the commercial fishing boats came in and we saw their hauls. I couldn’t believe how many fish they caught.

One time I think I...

SuperStorm Sandy wreaked some serious havoc here on Long Island in October of 2012. Bye bye electricity for over 2 weeks. Sure, I had my generators gassed up, but they weren’t running the whole house.

And especially not the heat.

The days were OK, but at night it got cold, buddy. I was prepared with 4 cords of wood I split that summer and a wood burning st...

My father-in-law is a mountain man from West Virginia. The first time my now wife brought me over to the house, what caught my eye immediately was all the glass jars on the kitchen table.

There must have been a hundred of them. It was mid-October and he was breaking down his garden. He had bins and bins of vegetables in the Florida room. Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers...

If you ever lived in a small space, you’re probably thinking I’m crazy right now. But I’m going to convince you otherwise.

For about a year and a half, I lived in a small one-bedroom apartment in Shirley, NY with my wife and son, and you would be blown away by the amount of stuff we had stored in there. Clothes, toys, decorations, food, paper goods, other supplies a...