by Jule Kucera | Apr 3, 2022 | Blog
Some money lessons have come closer to home. The kitchen for the first and the living room for the second. When I was in high school, my mother, in the kitchen, initiated a negotiation with my father during one of those rare evenings when he was home. She didn’t...
by Jule Kucera | Mar 27, 2022 | Blog
I’ve been pricing the cost of improvements to the land in Kentucky. As part of that, I needed to understand the tax implications of anything I might do, so I called the assessor’s office. The clerk let me know that building any structure, even if it was just a little...
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...
