by Jule Kucera | Jul 16, 2023 | Blog
As an adult, I’ve been single more than I’ve been partnered. Here’s one thing I’ve learned: it’s difficult to make new friends with a married couple. I can be friends with a couple if I already know one of them well, and then that person introduces me to their spouse....
by Jule Kucera | Jul 9, 2023 | Blog
Leda was a greyhound, white with black spots. They call them cow dogs. I thought she would be my last dog. I had done the math before she died, several years before she died. If Leda lived a normal greyhound lifespan of 10-12 years, and then if I got a smaller dog who...
by Jule Kucera | Jul 2, 2023 | Blog
This concludes the story that began two weeks ago and continued last week… Roy was bent over the generator, fiddling. He heard me and looked up. “It won’t start. Sorry. I can go to town and take care of it.” I looked at him, tried to take the measure of...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 25, 2023 | Blog
This continues the story from last week… The cabin I booked on airbnb was on a Christmas tree farm. The asphalt drive was freshly sealed, and I took it down to a neat gray house with a fieldstone base. Next to it was a big gray barn with a similar fieldstone...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 18, 2023 | Blog
It was the last leg of the long drive from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Whitewater, Michigan. On the interstates, I amused myself by calculating the car-to-truck ratio. Google maps became unhappy with me on US-12/WI-67. It feared I would turn off onto the dry dirt of a farm...
