Tag Archives: retirement

Returning to the Misty Past

By Robin Bates | Published: October 18, 2018

John Gatta’s “Spirits of Place” is helping me understand why I have chosen to retire in my home town. Wordsworth, Stowe, Homer, and Frost help out as well.

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Retirement Changes How Time Feels

By Robin Bates | Published: June 14, 2018

Terry Pratchett examines how we handle time in “Thief of Time.”

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Retiring to the Garden of Eden

By Robin Bates | Published: May 21, 2018

Stepping out of our U-Haul truck and into my mother’s wood, I felt I had entered Milton’s Garden of Eden.

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Tearful at Prospero’s Farewell

By Robin Bates | Published: March 6, 2018

Prospero’s final speech unexpectedly moved me to tears as I read it aloud recently to my British Fantasy class.

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Personal News: A 2018 Retirement

By Robin Bates | Published: January 5, 2017

In June 2018, after 38 years of teaching college, I will retire. I don’t want to go out like Walter Savage Landor’s old man–“the fire is low

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