Tag Archives: Flies

Kundera Understood Authoritarianism

By Robin Bates | Published: July 12, 2023

The late Milan Kundera understood the authoritarian mindset in a deep way. “Book of Laughter and Forgetting” and “Eternal Lightness of Being” capture the mindset.

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My Son’s Death and Two Tree Poems

By Robin Bates | Published: April 29, 2021

Today, the anniversary of my son’s death and also Arbor Day, I link the two days with two tree poems.

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Elated? Depressed? This Lit’s for You

By Robin Bates | Published: November 7, 2012

Lit to caution election night winners and bolster election night losers.

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Up in the Air, Then Back to Earth

By Robin Bates | Published: March 24, 2010

George Clooney, Up in the Air  The wonderful opportunity I had last week to deliver a series of lectures in Ljubljana (Slovenia) has me thinking about why it seems to be more satisfying to teach elsewhere than at home. In Slovenia, everything was fresh and exciting. In America, I feel inundated by worries and obligations. What […]

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Aspiring to Be a Dwarf

By Robin Bates | Published: September 4, 2009

Continuing the Lord of the Rings discussion, here’s an interesting insight passed on to me by my friend Rachel Kranz about my last entry.  I was interpreting my adolescent fondness for Gimli the dwarf as an indication that I felt myself a dwarf, hunkered down and plodding.  Rachel says that she was stunned by this self-description […]

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