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Alarms are going off all over town. You must evacuate your home immediately due to an encroaching wildfire. What do you take with you? Your 21 year-old son fell off a ladder. He needs emergency medical treatment but is not conscious or capable of giving consent. Who has the legal right to make decisions for him? What would he want? While on a train in Europe, your daughter's passport and credit cards are stolen. How can you help her? You were the one who paid the bills and managed the family finances. Following your unexpected death, your husband hasn't a clue where to begin. How can you make it easier for him to take over before a financial emergency compounds the problem? Help your family survive an emergency or handle a death by preparing now. Attend to your family records. Compile your READY BOOK, gathering documents step-by-step, first things first. Prepare for an evacuation, for helping your aging parent, or for sustainable retirement planning. Develop living resilience: Make a READY BOOK today.

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Be Ready in case the future rears up and bites you. How to gather the most important documents, organize the essential data about finances, insurance, health directives, and give the right people secure access to your information. The Ready Book lays it all out clearly and with a compelling rationale to get prepared today so you can relax tomorrow. - Philip K Allen, Regional Director, Talking Books Catherine I Katz gives us an easy to understand guide to help us get our most important documents in order and in one place, so they are accessible when we need them at the most traumatic times of our lives. Katz offers frank explanations to our most difficult questions in order to help us have important conversations with our loved ones and make crucial decisions about critical care. In case of fire or evacuation, no need to panic; all you need is in the Ready Box, ready to use or take with us when tragedy strikes. This book is long overdue! - Mary Dubisky, NBCT, retired public school English teacher This book is the perfect reference book for what you need to know in a crisis. Well thought out and easy to navigate. A must have for all households. - Steve Dunn, systems analyst A must read for all. A comprehensive guide and easy to understand instructions for everyone to use to prepare for emergencies, a family crisis, with logical all in one place instructions. - Ellen Bledsoe Rodriguez, family history writer and chronicler

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Catherine Katz likes to be organized. Now retired, she spent her work life managing relationships for schools and school-software developers. Her focus took a turn in 2007, when, in response to climate change predictions, Catherine and her husband of 50 years, Michael, began preparing for an uncertain future. They bought a three-acre floodplain cornfield that had been farmed for 1000 years and set out to learn about permaculture farming and how to grow their own food. In 2011, their farm, That's A Plenty Farm, evolved into the first pollinator habitat in western Massachusetts to be funded in part by the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service. In 2012, they downsized their carbon footprint by moving into a tiny house on the farm; tiny house living has proven to be comfortable and satisfying. The farm's focus is sustainability - ready for whatever happens - with a goal to eventually have a net positive effect on family, community, and the creatures with whom we share the planet. Learn more about the farm at thatsaplentyfarm.com.

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