by Jule Kucera | Oct 25, 2020 | Blog
Normally when I write these posts, I imagine that I am writing to someone who reads them, and I pick different people for different topics. But today, because I’m currently teaching a course on diversity and inclusion, that topic and those students are on my mind. So...
by Jule Kucera | Oct 18, 2020 | Blog
The plan was to put this into a Cud of Good but it was too long, so it’s here. It’s important to me that my life matters, that my being here has made a difference. But sometimes I can get too bound up in mattering, and it twists into an arduous means to...
by Jule Kucera | Oct 11, 2020 | Blog
You know that when I left full-time work, one of my goals was to write a novel. It’s a dream I’ve had for a long time. For most of my life, I didn’t think I was worthy of being a novelist, that novelists were special people and I wasn’t one of them. I don’t believe...
by Jule Kucera | Oct 4, 2020 | Blog
Morning Routine will be our next topic, but it seems I have a pattern—I like to riff on a few things between topics. This riff was prompted by Gisele Bündchen. Have you read Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss? It’s about how Big Food uses those three elements to hook us....
by Jule Kucera | Sep 27, 2020 | Blog
I like to pause between themes, to take a moment to rest at the top of the stairs, to take a deep breath. These posts this year started with an exploration into finding our true selves, and after forays into the coronavirus and racial justice, moved to navigating...
by Jule Kucera | Sep 20, 2020 | Blog
And this is how this series on transitions ends, just as the transition from the Neutral Zone to New Beginnings ends, not with a bang but with a gradual sense of clarity. If the Neutral Zone is a swamp, you leave it as you leave a swamp. Not through the exit door,...
