by Jule Kucera | Mar 20, 2022 | Blog
Audio: Stumbling Over Family History Doing the research to confirm the birth order and given names of Olga’s four daughters, I stumbled across a fact I didn’t know: My cousin Tiege is dead. It shouldn’t have been a surprise. The last I heard about Tiege (rhymes with...
by Jule Kucera | Mar 13, 2022 | Blog
Audio: Making Up For Lost Time With Money I’m guessing the four daughters were all happy to receive an inheritance of what I’ve estimated to be $800,000. One of them viewed it as a godsend. This daughter was 65 years old and had lived a free-spirited life, which...
by Jule Kucera | Mar 6, 2022 | Blog
Audio: Four Sisters and Their Mother’s Money My great-grandfather’s wife, Emilie, gave her husband Emil Folda two children before she died of pneumonia at age twenty-eight. At the time of her death, her son Albin was nine and her daughter Laura, my grandmother, was...
by Jule Kucera | Feb 27, 2022 | Blog
Audio: The Other Side of Envy There is a woman in my condo building that has brought out my green-eyed monster. I’m not jealous of her. I envy her condo. The condo building has two towers, and she lives at the top of one of them, in the penthouse. I don’t wish I had...
by Jule Kucera | Feb 20, 2022 | Blog
Audio: Traversing Unexpected Ice This morning I walked downtown to notarize a power of attorney form, one more step in the ongoing transfer of responsibility from Mom to me. Most of the snow from last week’s storm has been plowed, most of the streets and sidewalks are...
