by Jule Kucera | Jul 9, 2023 | Blog
Leda was a greyhound, white with black spots. They call them cow dogs. I thought she would be my last dog. I had done the math before she died, several years before she died. If Leda lived a normal greyhound lifespan of 10-12 years, and then if I got a smaller dog who...
by Jule Kucera | Jul 2, 2023 | Blog
This concludes the story that began two weeks ago and continued last week… Roy was bent over the generator, fiddling. He heard me and looked up. “It won’t start. Sorry. I can go to town and take care of it.” I looked at him, tried to take the measure of...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 25, 2023 | Blog
This continues the story from last week… The cabin I booked on airbnb was on a Christmas tree farm. The asphalt drive was freshly sealed, and I took it down to a neat gray house with a fieldstone base. Next to it was a big gray barn with a similar fieldstone...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 18, 2023 | Blog
It was the last leg of the long drive from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Whitewater, Michigan. On the interstates, I amused myself by calculating the car-to-truck ratio. Google maps became unhappy with me on US-12/WI-67. It feared I would turn off onto the dry dirt of a farm...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 11, 2023 | Blog
My parent’s marriage was troubled from the start, which can happen when each person thinks the other is going to save them. My mother wanted my father to save her from a future as a farm wife. My father wanted my mother to save him from himself. My mom lost two babies...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 4, 2023 | Blog
My brother Eric met his birth mother. He drove from Maryland to Pennsylvania, then stayed in a hotel the night before they were to meet. The next morning, he met his birth mother and his half-brother. They shared photographs and updated each other on the highlights of...
