by Jule Kucera | May 8, 2022 | Blog
Last night, Laura Trujillo, author of Stepping Back from the Ledge, spoke at the Mercantile Library for their annual memoir lecture. This reflection references suicide. If you or someone you know may be struggling with suicidal thoughts, call the National Suicide...
by Jule Kucera | May 1, 2022 | Blog
I’ve been working on a novel, dinking around with it for a couple of years, then seriously since 2019. It’s had three significant overhauls on the way to a completed first draft. The story is about a lawyer, and I wanted some input on the legal elements. At 7:30 a.m....
by Jule Kucera | Apr 24, 2022 | Blog
I feel like I’m supposed to come to some big conclusion after all this investigation into money themes. But I don’t have one. Maybe the point was the process. Maybe it would be more worthwhile to compare where I am now to where I was back in November, when this series...
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...
