by Jule Kucera | Jan 30, 2022 | Blog
Audio: Redux on Two I want to revisit two prior posts, last week’s Uncle Emil, and from back in December, The Sins of the Parents. First, Uncle Emil. One of the financial lessons I took from Uncle Emil was wrong. I thought he had squirreled away all that money. He...
by Jule Kucera | Jan 23, 2022 | Blog
Audio: Uncle Emil When I started these posts on finances and my family, I wasn’t sure where they would go or what the value would be. One outcome so far has been a surprise: your families also have secrets and stories. Intrigue is everywhere. Instead of focusing on...
by Jule Kucera | Jan 16, 2022 | Blog
Audio: Who Is This Woman? In this case, I’m not referring to some aged name on the family tree. I’m referring to the one who birthed me. Laurie, my psychologist friend, had prepared me to go back to New Jersey, to the place where I sleep on an air mattress because...
by Jule Kucera | Jan 9, 2022 | Blog
My great-grandfather, Emil F. Folda, was born in 1866 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and was brought to a sod house near Heun, Nebraska, as a toddler. The family relocated to take advantage of the Homestead Act and soil with fewer rocks. His mother died when he was 12; at...
by Jule Kucera | Jan 2, 2022 | Blog
Audio: Shocked by a Catholic I grew up without religion. I don’t know if that’s the continuing influence of my great-grandfather or my parent’s active choice. We had a Christmas tree with presents, and chocolate bunnies for Easter, but I never knew the basis for those...
