Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.

There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.

In my late 30s, I flirted with the idea of having a child without necessarily being in a steady relationship. But I've never had a strong maternal urge, and then I got cancer of the womb - luckily caught at an early stage - so that put paid to that.

The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.