Itching To Get Out

Itching To Get Out

The pandemic gave us opportunities to travel inward. More time in our homes. More time exploring our interior landscape. We’ve had more than enough of that. I was scratching the walls to travel again. In April, I went to  Vancouver, one of those places I’d always...
Stepping Back from the Ledge

Stepping Back from the Ledge

Last night, Laura Trujillo, author of Stepping Back from the Ledge, spoke at the Mercantile Library for their annual memoir lecture. This reflection references suicide. If you or someone you know may be struggling with suicidal thoughts, call the National Suicide...
Allowing Good

Allowing Good

I’ve been working on a novel, dinking around with it for a couple of years, then seriously since 2019. It’s had three significant overhauls on the way to a completed first draft. The story is about a lawyer, and I wanted some input on the legal elements. At 7:30 a.m....
The Money Grand Finale!

The Money Grand Finale!

I feel like I’m supposed to come to some big conclusion after all this investigation into money themes. But I don’t have one. Maybe the point was the process. Maybe it would be more worthwhile to compare where I am now to where I was back in November, when this series...
How the Rich Unjustly Get Richer

How the Rich Unjustly Get Richer

There’s one last money secret to share before we wrap up the money theme. This secret is in the present. We know the US tax system is inequitable, unfair, unjust. We know that when Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett and those other billionaires turn in their 1040s to the...
Jule Kucera