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Retirement Preview: The Anxiety-Avoidance Cycle
4June 14, 2013 by Jean
I am now in week four of my “retirement preview” summer, and I have been paying attention to how I …
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Retirement Preview: The Temptation to Be a Hermit
8June 4, 2013 by Jean
It has been two weeks since I arrived in Maine for the summer. This is the last year that I …
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Paring Down
6May 24, 2013 by Jean
During the past few weeks, I’ve been absorbed in end-of-semester activities – first grading final papers and exams and turning …
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Transitioning to Retirement: Will I Have Enough Money?
7May 2, 2013 by Jean
This has been a longer hiatus between blog posts than I had planned. Part of the explanation is that I …
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Retirement Dreaming in the Internet Age
9April 11, 2013 by Jean
When I signed my retirement agreement several weeks ago (see Taking the First Step), I noted that entering this pre-retirement …
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Negotiating Retirement
8April 3, 2013 by Jean
I have always been a “good girl”: the type of child who wanted to please the teachers; the type of …
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Transitioning to Retirement: How Will I Spend My Time?
6March 28, 2013 by Jean
One of the biggest changes accompanying retirement is the change in how we use our time. For most adults in …
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Stepping Into The Future
A Retirement Journal
I am Jean Potuchek, a professional sociologist who is about to step into the next phase of my life, retirement, after more than thirty years of college teaching. This blog is about my experience of that new phase of life.
Please join me as I step into my future.
