About Sarah’s Reflections

I’m Sarah — a former portrait photographer turned suburban prepper, slowly turning my house and homestead into a place that could weather a hard week, a long winter, or whatever else comes next.

For almost twenty years I ran a small portrait studio out of the back of our house, photographing other people’s families: weddings, newborns, holiday cards, the works. Somewhere around 2018 — after a few rough storms, a long power outage, and a stretch where the grocery shelves emptied faster than they used to — I started thinking less about lighting and more about how I’d feed and warm my own family if the next week was a hard one. Sarah’s Reflections is the journal of what I’ve learned since: how I built a two-week pantry on a normal grocery budget, how I learned to garden after killing every plant I touched in my thirties, how I think about water, fuel, communication, and security without losing my mind to doom. I write for the family next door, not the bunker crowd. Most of what I share costs nothing and takes a weekend.

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