by Jule Kucera | Mar 6, 2022 | Blog
Audio: Four Sisters and Their Mother’s Money My great-grandfather’s wife, Emilie, gave her husband Emil Folda two children before she died of pneumonia at age twenty-eight. At the time of her death, her son Albin was nine and her daughter Laura, my grandmother, was...
by Jule Kucera | Feb 27, 2022 | Blog
Audio: The Other Side of Envy There is a woman in my condo building that has brought out my green-eyed monster. I’m not jealous of her. I envy her condo. The condo building has two towers, and she lives at the top of one of them, in the penthouse. I don’t wish I had...
by Jule Kucera | Feb 20, 2022 | Blog
Audio: Traversing Unexpected Ice This morning I walked downtown to notarize a power of attorney form, one more step in the ongoing transfer of responsibility from Mom to me. Most of the snow from last week’s storm has been plowed, most of the streets and sidewalks are...
by Jule Kucera | Feb 13, 2022 | Blog
Audio: A Dream Informs a Decision Last week’s post made it sound like I thought logical thoughts and came to the logical conclusion that I should delegate managing my investments. That’s not entirely true. A dream informed my decision. Dreams have guided me before....
by Jule Kucera | Feb 6, 2022 | Blog
Audio: This Might Be Working This coming out of the closet about money might be helping me. Here’s why I think so. I have two core fears that motivate much of my behavior around money (and maybe other things, too). I’m afraid I will end up like my father, smart and...
by Jule Kucera | Jan 30, 2022 | Blog
Audio: Redux on Two I want to revisit two prior posts, last week’s Uncle Emil, and from back in December, The Sins of the Parents. First, Uncle Emil. One of the financial lessons I took from Uncle Emil was wrong. I thought he had squirreled away all that money. He...
