by Jule Kucera | Jan 8, 2023 | Blog
Because I had Covid, we shifted my dates to visit mom, pushing everything back a week. Part of the plan is for mom and me to meet my brother Eric in Cape May for lunch. Originally planned for Tuesday, December 27, we moved it to Tuesday, January 3, which is my...
by Jule Kucera | Jan 1, 2023 | Blog
You know how when you get sick you think, “This will be okay. I can get caught up on my reading, make sure I’m ready to do my taxes, yadda, yadda.” You think these things, right? But all those things you think you’re going to do, you do none of them. You’re too tired...
by Jule Kucera | Dec 25, 2022 | Blog
It’s Sunday, December 18th as I’m writing this. Today was a big day—the day I finished the refresh of Sweet Baby Lover, my memoir. There’s still much to do related to different print and ebook versions, but to use a term Trent would use, the “guts” are done. I thought...
by Jule Kucera | Dec 18, 2022 | Blog
I’ve just wrapped up teaching at UC this semester. It was an unusual class. There is always one student who lets me know they are struggling with thoughts of self-harm, but this year there were several dealing with significant mental health challenges. Anxiety....
by Jule Kucera | Dec 11, 2022 | Blog
“Everything you eat has to die for you to eat it.” This is something Trent said. It’s the reason I’m an omnivore, not a vegetarian. For me to live, everything I eat must die. I suppose fruit is a technicality, but I’m stealing the food the fruit seed needed to grow...
by Jule Kucera | Dec 4, 2022 | Blog
My mom may have encouraged me to ignore auto exhaust, but she raised me to be conscious of the weather. Mom grew up on a small farm in Nebraska, dirt poor. It was the kind of farm that is almost extinct—a farm with a little of everything. There were crops and cows,...
