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Monthly Archives: August 2014

Time for Food
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August 20, 2014 by Jean

I love food. My love is for whole foods, simply prepared, and I cook most of what I eat. Typically, …
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Category: Living, Maine, Time/Activities | Tags: Barbara Kinsolver, community supported agriculture, Eliot Coleman, house addition, living in Maine, localharvest.org, Michael Pollan, time utilization
A Life Course Perspective On Retirement: Normative Trajectories
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August 14, 2014 by Jean

In Pascale, Primavera and Roach’s book The Retirement Maze (see Retirement Transition Reading: The Retirement Maze), “life course theory” is …
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Category: Retirement transition, sociology of retirement | Tags: finishing work, life course theory, retirement, retirement age, retirement and women
Does Retirement Make Me a Financial Risk?
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August 5, 2014 by Jean

Part of my plan for retirement has long been to build an addition on my 900-square-foot home to make it …
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Category: Retirement finances | Tags: bank loans, Catch-22, house addition, Joseph Heller, retirement finances

I am Jean Potuchek, a professional sociologist who has just stepped 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.

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