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Bringing Back the Games of Yesteryear

By Robin Bates | Published: June 28, 2021

My grandson is visiting, getting me to break out the old games my father loved.

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Where Are the Games of Yesteryear?

By Robin Bates | Published: December 25, 2013

Christmas I shared “Ballad of the Games of Yesteryear” this past spring when my father temporarily lapsed into dementia. But he wrote it as a Christmas poem and so I’m posting it again as I mourn the first Christmas spent without him. Now that he is dead, the poem contains special meaning, echoing as it […]

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