Author Archives: billybaba

NOVEMBER 5, TUESDAY

PERSONAL RESPONSE 3: LOSING During the recent World Series why was I recently cheering for the Dodgers and wanted the Yankees to lose? I didn’t know the players on either team, in fact I hadn’t watched a baseball game all

NOVEMBER 5, TUESDAY

PERSONAL RESPONSE 3: LOSING During the recent World Series why was I recently cheering for the Dodgers and wanted the Yankees to lose? I didn’t know the players on either team, in fact I hadn’t watched a baseball game all

NOVEMBER 4, MONDAY

PERSONAL RESPONSE 2: SPORTS EVENT If it were a sports event it would have been what is considered a very good game. Sports are no fun to watch if the score is lopsided and one side is beating the other

NOVEMBER 4, MONDAY

PERSONAL RESPONSE 2: SPORTS EVENT If it were a sports event it would have been what is considered a very good game. Sports are no fun to watch if the score is lopsided and one side is beating the other

NOVEMBER 3, SUNDAY

PERSONAL RESPONSE ONE: MY TEAM, MY TRIBE The election turned things upside down for me, first crushing me, then bringing relief that the tension of the fight was over and then forcing to figure out for myself how I would

NOVEMBER 3, SUNDAY

PERSONAL RESPONSE ONE: MY TEAM, MY TRIBE The election turned things upside down for me, first crushing me, then bringing relief that the tension of the fight was over and then forcing to figure out for myself how I would

NOVEMBER 2, SATURDAY

ULTRAMOD I thought it was our secret place, our discovery. ULTRAMOD was a haberdashery in Paris that we found somehow when we visited Paris for a week in 2013 on our 50th wedding anniversary. It was our actually our long

NOVEMBER 2, SATURDAY

ULTRAMOD I thought it was our secret place, our discovery. ULTRAMOD was a haberdashery in Paris that we found somehow when we visited Paris for a week in 2013 on our 50th wedding anniversary. It was our actually our long

NOVEMBER 1, FRIDAY

LOIS’S DOLLS The day after Halloween Susie took a bag with her on a walk along the French Broad River in Marshall. She was hoping to find objects with which she could make an installation of objects as a response

NOVEMBER 1, FRIDAY

LOIS’S DOLLS The day after Halloween Susie took a bag with her on a walk along the French Broad River in Marshall. She was hoping to find objects with which she could make an installation of objects as a response

OCTOBER 31, THURSDAY

HALLOWEEN Halloween is a time for dressing up in outlandish costumes with children going from house to house asking for candy. Trick or treat is what children sing out, promising a trick if they don’t get candy, but the days

OCTOBER 31, THURSDAY

HALLOWEEN Halloween is a time for dressing up in outlandish costumes with children going from house to house asking for candy. Trick or treat is what children sing out, promising a trick if they don’t get candy, but the days

OCTOBER 30, WEDNESDAY

HEARTLAND I happened on an online interview with a young woman, Sarah Smarsh, who grew up in Kansas where she lived a hard childhood near the poverty line. She had enough to eat and a roof over her head but

OCTOBER 30, WEDNESDAY

HEARTLAND I happened on an online interview with a young woman, Sarah Smarsh, who grew up in Kansas where she lived a hard childhood near the poverty line. She had enough to eat and a roof over her head but

OCTOBER 29, TUESDAY

DEALING WITH THE ELECTION One week until the election and like so many people I can’t understand how America can be so divided. Support for Donald Trump, who seems obviously so unfit to be President and who seems from my

OCTOBER 29, TUESDAY

DEALING WITH THE ELECTION One week until the election and like so many people I can’t understand how America can be so divided. Support for Donald Trump, who seems obviously so unfit to be President and who seems from my

OCTOBER 28, MONDAY

PRIMROSE‘S TEA TENT Susie and I went to Nanostead to see if there were people there whose portraits we could make. But there seemed to be few people we hadn‘t photographed so instead of setting up our photo booth we

OCTOBER 28, MONDAY

PRIMROSE‘S TEA TENT Susie and I went to Nanostead to see if there were people there whose portraits we could make. But there seemed to be few people we hadn‘t photographed so instead of setting up our photo booth we

OCTOBER 27, SUNDAY

MAKING SORGHUM SYRUP Sunday, Todd, Susie and I visited our friend Randall Lanier‘s family mountain place where his extended family and friends were crushing and boiling sorghum and turning it into syrup. A week ago I wrote about visiting Tony

OCTOBER 27, SUNDAY

MAKING SORGHUM SYRUP Sunday, Todd, Susie and I visited our friend Randall Lanier‘s family mountain place where his extended family and friends were crushing and boiling sorghum and turning it into syrup. A week ago I wrote about visiting Tony