by Jule Kucera | Jun 16, 2024 | Blog
Last month, a friend and I went to the Indiana Peony Festival in Noblesville, Indiana, about a 2-hour drive from Cincinnati. I selfishly looked forward to the trip. Yes, because we’re good friends and I enjoy any time we’re together. But also because she is a...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 9, 2024 | Blog
The other night, during my pre-bed yin yoga routine, I lay on my back, shoulders flat on the thin rubber mat, hips and legs turned in one direction but my head turned in the other, twisting my innards like a corkscrew. I started to cry. Not little wimpy tears, but all...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 2, 2024 | Blog
My 50th high school reunion is this August. I’ve got my dress and a room at a B&B to share with my friend Claire, who lives in San Francisco. I’m looking forward to seeing my friends, but Todd won’t be there because he died a month ago. Todd had cancer and his...
by Jule Kucera | May 26, 2024 | Blog
I’ve enjoyed posting these “oldies but goodies,” posts written long ago but still remembered. This one’s so old it’s not even on my website. It’s from The Before Times, the posts from February 2009 through June 2018, when I took...
by Jule Kucera | May 19, 2024 | Blog
Before, my mother’s questions were merely repetitive. Now, they prove the synapses in her brain are not slick and speedy, but more like dusty cobwebs or roads that suddenly T-bone into a grassy field. Because my mother doesn’t see my toothbrush on her bathroom...
