“Seven Cities, Say What?!” is the place where, when you overhear something hilarious, ridiculous, poignant, or just plain odd in your travels aroundst the 757, you share it here.

AltDaily’s editors, writers, friends and favorite locals give thanks.

While every parent wants their child to be happy, they also kinda want them to be happy close to home, with a sensible job, a dignified spouse, and plenty of money. Well…sorry mom and dad, I kind of missed all that and just went straight for the happy part.

Some ways of eating meat are more environmentally sustainable than others. Amelia from Green Alternatives teaches us about owning your own cow makes the most green sense.

For all of you starry-eyed, veggie-loving romantics out there, I’d like to provide you with a few resources you can thank me later for.

I have often told my husband that I feel like I am living like a food fundamentalist- where some foods wear smiley face buttons and others wear skulls and crossbones.

And if not, what’s missing to create one?

Green Alternative’s Amelia Baker follows Hampton Roads’ roughly 6.4 million pounds of trash a day and 2.3 billion pounds of waste a year from your bin to its final resting place.

Our local farmer’s wife, Kathleen Fogarty, talks about living with chickens here in Hampton Roads.

Dear Advice A Toi, I am in a three-year relationship with a girl who was raised in a traditional Muslim household. I haven’t met her parents yet. And I am adding to lies she tells them. What should I do?

Because you wrote your resume with a human, and not a computer in mind. This and more resume tips from HR veteran Dawn Boyer.

Induction, initiation, hazing. It’s Chief season in Hampton Roads! For all of you navy folks out there, yes I realize I am being very politically incorrect with those two words, initiation and hazing. But hey, I say if the pot is black, why not say so.

“It’s hard to imagine what a normal day at the gun store used to be,” writes Steve Dowdy of Bob’s Gun Shop in Norfolk. “I witnessed more first-time gun purchases this past year than I have in the 20 years I have been in the firearms industry.”

Hannah Serrano makes the more-complicated-than-you’d-think decision to go on The Pill.

All seems to fit correctly in your mind: more stress, more deployments, more suicides. But is this the whole story? There is a lot more here than initially meets the eye, says our Navy officer Ryan Haag.

Bottles of gin, hair weaves, something bomb-like the cops had to take care of, red panties, and just about as many cigarette butts as there were pieces of sand.

I am a white, English, blonde bombshell and my boyfriend Lennie is a Guatemalan dark-skinned Latin hunk of muscle, steel and cha-cha heels. Why do people keep insisting we must be brothers?

A sailor’s girlfriend finds naked, sexy pictures… and they’re not just of women.

Part two of Navy officer Ryan Haag’s account of his three-month trip to Bahrain, including forays to a jewelry-making shack and a local go-kart track.

Navy officer Ryan Haag writes about his trip to Bahrain, with illuminating details of day-to-day life in the military, Arab culture, and seeing the “Big Navy” picture.

One of the girls in our group of friends, known affectionately as the Ocean View Posse, suggested that we might as well use our powers for good. We decided to volunteer at the Foodbank.

Tom Robotham muses on labels and identity.

Well, the institution of military wives is a lot like high school. The only real difference is, we aren’t categorized by our own characteristics or attributes, we classify ourselves by our husbands.

Thank you for inviting us into your bed. We will now tell you what to do.

I am afraid that I will welcome home a man that looks, sounds, smells like my husband, yet is someone else entirely. What happens then? What if I get his body back and not his soul?

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