Tag Archives: "Tables Turned"

Summer’s Over, Back to School

By Robin Bates | Published: August 29, 2021

The end of the Pooh books mourns the end of summer and the return to school.

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Novels with Waterfalls and Secret Caves

By Robin Bates | Published: August 10, 2016

When I was growing up, the adventure books that I read influenced how I regarded and interacted with nature.

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Using Lit to Discover Purpose in Science

By Robin Bates | Published: May 22, 2016

My Intro to Literature students, few of whom are English majors, are often startled to discover that literature understands them better than they understand themselves. Today’s post describes the encounters between two science majors and, respectively, Wordsworth’s “Intimations of Immortality” and Kingsolver’s “Flight Behavior.”

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My Heart Leapt Up

By Robin Bates | Published: January 15, 2013

A rainbow sighting led to a discussion about how humans often turn to nature for guiding metaphors.

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Nature or Poetry? Choose Both

By Robin Bates | Published: June 15, 2010

“The world is filled with the grandeur of God.” “The sounding cataract haunted me like a passion.” In my last two posts, I reported how poetry sprang to mind as I walked through some of California’s natural wonders, specifically Big Basin Redwoods State Park and Yosemite National Park.  Today I meditate on the relationship of […]

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