by Jule Kucera | Oct 22, 2023 | Blog
On Sunday (today, if you are reading this on Sunday), I will visit my brother Eric’s birth mother. There are unnamable feelings, like an oil slick on water, or a Labrador of dog hair in my chest. I try to tease them apart, to understand, make sense. The only feeling I...
by Jule Kucera | Oct 15, 2023 | Blog
There are things I know now that I didn’t know back when I was 15, when my father demanded that I justify my existence. For cleansing or healing or maybe just to get it out of my system, I imagined What If? What if I knew back then what I know now? What would I have...
by Jule Kucera | Oct 8, 2023 | Blog
“Your lungs are your Achilles heel. Or one of them.” The message was from a friend. We had been discussing my current bronchitis, history of asthma, two bouts of Covid. I give myself credit for surviving a Covid close call. It happened while staying with a friend in...
by Jule Kucera | Oct 1, 2023 | Blog
There are seasons, and there are seasons of change. Right now, I’m in a season of change. After teaching at UC every Fall for five years, next Wednesday evening will be my last class. My small-group coaching program, Memoir Mastery, opens for enrollment tomorrow....
by Jule Kucera | Sep 24, 2023 | Blog
Last week, after I said I felt like kelp floating in the ocean, a dear reader replied, “Kelp is very important. OK to be kelp.” She included a link to support her perspective. I learned that sea otters and kelp have an important relationship. Sea otters often wrap...
by Jule Kucera | Sep 17, 2023 | Blog
My friend Laurie said this to me, that her dust bunnies were the size of Labradors. It was not an apology, merely an observation. Laurie is adamant in her executive coaching work with clients and in her own life. She admonishes her clients, “Pick your A’s.” We can’t...
