After more than 20 years of making daily SurvivalBlog posts, I am nearing the point of exhaustion. I realize that I have been spending far too much time online. My editing pace simply has to change. So, after some prayer and deliberation, I have decided to switch SurvivalBlog to a weekly format. Henceforth, you can expect to see:
- Starting on or about June 2, 2026 SurvivalBlog will be posted on Tuesdays, and perhaps the occasional Thursday, if the Tuesday posts get too crowded. So you can expect to see SurvivalBlog “Fresh Every Tuesday.” (Echoing the late, great Ol’ Remus [1].)
- We are discontinuing the SurvivalBlog Writing Contest [2]. The current round (Round 124) will be the final round, and the prizes announced and mailed out in early June will be the last ones awarded. (Note: Any folks with unused Elk Creek Company purchase credits may redeem them until December of 2026.) Also note that we already have a five-part article in the queue, so that leaves just 15 posting days available for contest entries between now and May 31st. So, if you have any unfinished articles, please hurry writing them and send them in!
- A consolidation of our SurvivalBlog columns into one-day-per-week. Much the same mix of content will still be there, but you’ll see it just on Tuesdays: (Such as: quotes, historical notes, American Redoubt news, economics and investing items, world news, and our prepping progress. There will be just one feature article each week.)
- Product reviews will be posted just twice per month, instead of four times per month.
- Recipes will be posted just twice per month, instead of four times per month.
- I’ll still be consulting, doing occasional interviews, still writing novels, still producing the SurvivalBlog Old School (SOS) newsletter [3], and still operating Elk Creek Company [4]
- I’ll continue to produce an annual waterproof archive USB stick. To make up for the smaller annual volume of blog content, I will include even more bonus books each year.
- I’ll have much more time available to spend with Avalanche Lily and my family to do things that we’ve been putting off for years.
- Note that I often won’t be able to respond to your e-mails immediately, because there will be some days each week when I’m completely offline. (Hopefully, spending more time hiking and hunting.)
- We’ll still gladly run letters and guest articles sent by readers. There will be be no minimum length for articles.
- The full archives of SurvivalBlog will remain available free of charge. The SurvivalBlog Writing Contest [2]page will become a static page.
- In the event of any major crises or catastrophic events I will post on other days of the week, ad hoc.
Rest assured that this is not a retirement announcement! Except for the discontinuation of the writing contest and the consolidation of posts into a weekly format, SurvivalBlog will still have what you’ve always expected to see.
I trust that you will concur with the wisdom of this change of pace.
Wishing You God’s Blessings, – Jim and “Avalanche Lily” Rawles