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The Examined Home: The Problem with ‘If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade’

On May 6, 2011 By

by Loris Nebbia

What is all this juice and all this joy?/ A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning… –from “Spring”by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The problem with the saying about lemonade is that it might work easily on things like fruit or favorite shrunken sweaters, [...]

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Roughly Four-hundred Words to Think About Before We Celebrate Osama bin Laden’s Death

On May 2, 2011 By

by Kyle Stewart

I believe we all would agree that showing up to a wedding wearing all black is insensitive to the joyous character of the event, let alone the feelings of those getting married. We might also argue that on a day like today, saying anything that does not flow with the whelming tide [...]

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