Tag Archive: hope

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”  This is the cheesiest line I’ve ever heard. What if you don’t like lemonade? I don’t and I don’t care to make lemonade with the so-called lemons I’ve been given.  How about tossing them in the trash?  After all if they’re supposed to be symbolic of the bad things happening...  

I live on the edge of a college campus, the one that I attended for undergrad and graduate school. I grew up on another edge of that same campus as a kid, so I’m well-acquainted with the space. I walk the campus several times a week, my paths imprinted on its memory and mine. I...