In article >, songbird
> wrote:

> me either, i would hope to work with the neighbors
> to turn the surrounding fields into workable gardens
> for everyone and try to make a community of it. i am
> not interested in living if all i have to do is fight
> and kill. that's too much like what is already going
> on in the world in too many places. but then again,
> that would be if it were only me. if i still have to
> protect Ma then that becomes a bit different, but
> that just might mean banding together with one of
> the neighboring families that do have weapons and
> sharing watch duties and going from there until things
> get sorted out.

If you enjoy sci-fi, grab a copy of Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and
Jerry Pournelle. Post-apocalypse story line (comet strike destroys
civilization), but the prep work and things their characters consider
and act on is well thought out and quite interesting for ideas.

--
³Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness
sobered, but stupid lasts forever.² -- Aristophanes