by Jule Kucera | Apr 25, 2021 | Blog
When I was thirteen, it seemed that the only way to make money was a paper route or babysitting. Boys had paper routes, girls babysat. I didn’t particularly like children, but they were a necessary part of the enterprise. Fifty cents an hour was the prevailing rate....
by Jule Kucera | Apr 18, 2021 | Blog
Last Friday, my friend Erin invited some friends to her house for drinks on her patio, because the weather was going to be warm (at last!) and because she has a new home with a large stone patio. I wanted to make something to bring because it felt like a...
by Jule Kucera | Apr 11, 2021 | Blog
After the series on morning meditations, I wasn’t sure where to go next. A while ago, someone asked if I would write about the different ways Trent lets me know he’s still around. This morning I was interviewed about that topic for the Mystic Takeaway podcast. I...
by Jule Kucera | Apr 4, 2021 | Blog
Back in 1992, I worked at the University of Chicago Medical Center, in their training and organizational development department. One of the classes we offered was a diversity class. We co-facilitated that class, partnered by race and gender, so my co-facilitator was...
by Jule Kucera | Mar 28, 2021 | Blog
I was at the University of Minnesota, first as an undergrad, then as an employee and grad student, from the late 1970s through most of the 1980s. During that time (and still?), the University had a strong feminist contingent. One of the things they did was scratch out...
by Jule Kucera | Mar 21, 2021 | Blog
A friend asked what caused me to take a deep dive into all that chocolate last Friday. I couldn’t think of a reason. But today I figured it out. I ate all that chocolate because I was sad. About Leda. So why was I sad about Leda almost three months after she died?...
