Back when I started the Get Out And Do Stuff (GOADS) project, I was crying every day. Now the person I was then seems so far away, it’s hard to imagine feeling that way. In the last eight days, I...

Carrie Fisher said that in hindsight, she may have married Paul Simon because of his music. There was something about the rhythm of the words that made her bipolar brain feel better. When I listen...

The drumming room is bright but softer, less of a rectangle, more of a square. Metal chairs with blue or yellow hard plastic seats are arranged in a circle. Most of the seats are taken. Each seat...

Saturday! Time to go drumming! When I last looked at the Bi-Okoto Cultural Center website, the Saturday drumming class was at ten o’clock. Because I am almost always early for everything, especially...

Sharon Keefer is 90 years old. She doesn’t just play pickleball, she teaches others how to play. At nine o’clock every Thursday and Saturday morning from late Spring to early Fall, if you show up at...

Drumming wasn’t until Saturday. It was too far away from Tuesday afternoon to simply wait for it to arrive. Preventive measures were necessary. There are two questions I ask myself when the blue...