by Jule Kucera | Apr 17, 2022 | Blog
There’s one last money secret to share before we wrap up the money theme. This secret is in the present. We know the US tax system is inequitable, unfair, unjust. We know that when Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett and those other billionaires turn in their 1040s to the...
by Jule Kucera | Apr 10, 2022 | Blog
6 March 2022 I need to bring black and blue pens and my composition notebook. And something that feels comforting, not my weighted blanket because it is too big and too heavy. Maybe Lambie. (Don’t laugh, please.) And the file folder labeled “Mom,” now so big I...
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...
