by Jule Kucera | Jul 10, 2022 | Blog
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 have: Participated in a community open house with the Vice Mayor of...
by Jule Kucera | Jul 3, 2022 | Blog
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 to Paul Simon’s Graceland and “the way she brushed her hair from her...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 26, 2022 | Blog
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 has a tall drum in front of it. The djembes have a carved wooden base...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 19, 2022 | Blog
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 when I am nervous, I get there at nine-thirty. Unsure about where to...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 12, 2022 | Blog
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 the pickleball courts at Sawyer Point in Cincinnati to learn how to...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 5, 2022 | Blog
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 cloud shows up, bumping against the window, threatening to break in: Have...
