Author Archives: billybaba
NOVEMBER 16, THURSDAY
SUSIE ARRIVES Susie arrived at midnight on Thursday, exhausted after and overnight flight to Athens, then a tour of Athens during the day and then the long Blue Star Ferry ride across the Aegean most of which she sat outside
NOVEMBER 16, THURSDAY
SUSIE ARRIVES Susie arrived at midnight on Thursday, exhausted after and overnight flight to Athens, then a tour of Athens during the day and then the long Blue Star Ferry ride across the Aegean most of which she sat outside
NOVEMBER 15, WEDNESDAY
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE From my perspective all of these social changes are amplified or even often caused by technological change which in my own life has been enormous. Change doesn’t just affect MAGA Americans, it affects everyone living in the United
NOVEMBER 15, WEDNESDAY
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE From my perspective all of these social changes are amplified or even often caused by technological change which in my own life has been enormous. Change doesn’t just affect MAGA Americans, it affects everyone living in the United
NOVEMBER 14, TUESDAY
EMOTIONS As I get older I am more and more aware that I am impelled through life by emotions, by what makes me feel more alive and what seems to immobilize or suffocate me. Like all animals I have my
NOVEMBER 14, TUESDAY
EMOTIONS As I get older I am more and more aware that I am impelled through life by emotions, by what makes me feel more alive and what seems to immobilize or suffocate me. Like all animals I have my
NOVEMBER 13, MONDAY
DETERMINISM, EMOTIONS, EMPATHY, TECH CHANGE: MY PERSONAL CLUMSY APPROACH TO DEALING WITH POLARIZATION For the next three days I will puzzle about how to deal with social and political polarization in the United States. We are caught in a time
NOVEMBER 13, MONDAY
DETERMINISM, EMOTIONS, EMPATHY, TECH CHANGE: MY PERSONAL CLUMSY APPROACH TO DEALING WITH POLARIZATION For the next three days I will puzzle about how to deal with social and political polarization in the United States. We are caught in a time
NOVEMBER 12, SUNDAY
LUNCH WITH EFI On Sunday Efi announced that she was taking me out to eat. Or, rather, she told her niece two doors down that she was taking me out to eat at 1:30 and the niece, who speaks English,
NOVEMBER 12, SUNDAY
LUNCH WITH EFI On Sunday Efi announced that she was taking me out to eat. Or, rather, she told her niece two doors down that she was taking me out to eat at 1:30 and the niece, who speaks English,
NOVEMBER 9, THURSDAY
WALKING THROUGH NAOUSA For days I’ve been holed up in my room or sitting out on the porch under the pink bougainvillea. I only leave to go for a walk to the grocery store. Here are a few photographs of
NOVEMBER 9, THURSDAY
WALKING THROUGH NAOUSA For days I’ve been holed up in my room or sitting out on the porch under the pink bougainvillea. I only leave to go for a walk to the grocery store. Here are a few photographs of
NOVEMBER 8, WEDNESDAY
EFI’S MEALS I was going to wrestle with the issue of how to reconcile MAGA Republicans and Liberal Democrats but wrestle as I may I’m not having much luck. So instead I will write about the lunches Efi Tripolitsioti brings
NOVEMBER 8, WEDNESDAY
EFI’S MEALS I was going to wrestle with the issue of how to reconcile MAGA Republicans and Liberal Democrats but wrestle as I may I’m not having much luck. So instead I will write about the lunches Efi Tripolitsioti brings
NOVEMBER 7, TUESDAY
HEAVEN AND HELL I am sitting at the white table on the white porch surrounded by pink bougainvillea with a jar of cookies, freshly baked by Efi, in front of me. Up the lane a man is making repairs to
NOVEMBER 7, TUESDAY
HEAVEN AND HELL I am sitting at the white table on the white porch surrounded by pink bougainvillea with a jar of cookies, freshly baked by Efi, in front of me. Up the lane a man is making repairs to
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 