If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.First off I want to say that this community is really cool. I posted on here a picture of my moving truck and within 20 minutes got a call asking if we needed any help moving. And if you have moved recently enough [...]

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This was pulled from the latest Census statistics. (Thanks to Phillip Reese from the Bee)

Watching the burbs grow as they have is kind of like watching everyone head into a restaurant that you know serves really bad food that will make them all sick, they are all excited about it, but have no idea what [...]

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So much to write about but so little brain power to write with.
We are moved in finally and we succeeded in making a great big mess out of a brand new house already. The living room is full of boxes and misplaced furniture and all we can do is sleep.
Tomorrow is another day and hopefully [...]

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I have to keep saying this in case there is anyone out there that would think that I am posting a finished work here. The things I am posting from the ongoing book project are raw and totally unedited. They are not in any way finished or even close to being grammatically correct. I put [...]

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It’s almost midnight as I lay here in bed with my mind spinning. The mattress sits on the floor as the bedframe is leaning against the wall in the hall awaiting the move tomorrow. So many things to do to get my family and all our 9 years worth of stuff across town into our [...]

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You may have gotten the email but I wanted to post this here as well, just to make sure everyone has a chance to go make some dirt.
A while back we posted about the Naturemill Kitchen compost units that we are putting in each of our homes. I brought one home and tried it out [...]

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Robert from Shiny Object sent me over a link this morning for a movie that looks really neat. From the sound of things in the description the battles they have to fight are very close to home for us here at LJ Urban. Its called the Greening of Southie. Check it out.

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I just read the first chapter of Thomas Friedman’s new book Hot Flat and Crowded and it’s incredible. I knew this guy could write from his other works, but this time it’s off the charts. He is hitting straight to the most important issue we will face in our generation. America needs to get off [...]

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As I have been working on the book I have begun to hate the word “Community” Sort of like when you say the same thing over and over it begins to sound less and less like a word and more like a bunch of weird sounds mashed together….”Rural” is another one that sounds funny to [...]

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Its weird to me that this is going on and no one seems to be talking about it. I read all my usual news sources today and heard nothing about Tennessee being out of gas..
Makes you stop and think about when it really does happen. I am 27 and one day in my lifetime it’s [...]

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