Tag Archives: Jean Paul Sartre

Two Parables Involving Falling Leaves

By Robin Bates | Published: November 8, 2013

Scott Bates and Lucille Clifton find poetic lessons in falling leaves.

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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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Soccer Highs and Lows and a Tennis Epic

By Robin Bates | Published: June 26, 2010

John Isner         Sports Saturday – “It’s incredible!  You could not write a script like this!” So proclaimed the announcer in the U. S. – Algeria World Cup match when Landon Donovan netted a stoppage time goal to avoid elimination and send the Americans forward to the next round. In other words, a sports announcer’s ultimate […]

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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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