Tag Archives: Birth

Happy Marriages Are NOT All Alike

By Robin Bates | Published: June 6, 2024

For my wedding anniversary, I turn to my favorite literary couple: Levin and Kitty in “Anna Karenina.”

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Poems Celebrating My Birth

By Robin Bates | Published: June 12, 2014

My father celebrated my entrance into the world with two poems, one serious, one not.

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New Grandchild Born under a Dancing Star

By Robin Bates | Published: March 7, 2014

To celebrate the birth of my new granddaughter, I turn to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare.

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Midwife, No Doc, at Grandson’s Birth

By Robin Bates | Published: February 6, 2012

My new grandson had the birth experience denied Tristram Shandy: one where a midwife was in charge.

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Singing the Miracle of New Birth

By Robin Bates | Published: February 1, 2012

“As the robin singeth after rain,” so are we all singing after the birth of my first grandchild.

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