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City Garden © by Michael_Lehet, used under Creative Commons license.

I'm gonna give y'all some city vegetable gardening tips that might help you save some cash and beef up your summer dinner menu at the same time. You see what I did there? Food pun!

Let's look at some truths.

What's a girl to do in her mid-twenties, firmly ensconced in being a real live adult and having to make the decision about where home will be right now?

When I was in Seattle for the Offbeat-empire-weekend-of-awesome, I commented to Ariel about how impressed I was at the public compost bins. I'm a big believer that one of the best things we can do for the earth is to compost. Then I casually mentioned that I had ordered a Bokashi composter to try out and she was all "Offbeat Home post?" Then I told Cat and she was all "Yes! Please!" Then we became adults again. I swear.

Our cities are home to endless activity, people of all stripes, and our friendly (or creepoid) neighborhood weirdos.

Let us city dwellers sing a paean — a song of praise or triumph — for our cities. Let us stand together and celebrate our homes.

"Well you'll have to move, of course" a close friend said to me the other day when I brought up our next adoption. She said it so confidently that I hated to disagree. This is easily the number one thing that people who know us bring up when the conversation turns to kids. I'm not surprised, because when we were in the middle of our first adoption process people said the same thing, or something similar.

I was 21 years old when I moved to San Francisco. I was a glamorous big-city girl and I was ready to LIVE THE DREAM!

…oh, except for the fact that my $11/hr file clerk job barely paid me enough to cover rent and food.

Did you guys see this article that made the rounds last week, about how lists of livable cities almost never seem to include the cities where everyone, well, wants to live?