Paul Stevens was brought up in a family where respect for the outdoors and personal independence were strong values. Early life experience on the small farms of his extended family, in home vegetable gardens, and canning and freezing of family grown produce, made having a large pantry a commonplace. A career in the nuclear industry and positions in emergency response within that field inculcated a philosophy of preparedness. Personal experience of multi-day power outages only reinforced the possibility of infrastructure breakdown. And a growing awareness of possible threats to the electrical grid from pandemic, economic breakdown, cyber-attack, solar storms and EMP attack lead to an interest in the preparedness field with regards to society and the individual family. Paul continues to research and learn in the prepping field and looks forward to assembling additional books in the near future. Paul's learning and experiences in emergency prepping have opened the doors to the possibilities of family self-reliance and he is now actively exploring that field.