Monthly Archives: August 2015

  1. Busy, Busy, Busy

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    August 25, 2015 by Jean

    One of the concepts that comes up repeatedly in the social science literature on retirement is the “culture of busyness” …
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    Category: Living, Social relationships, Time/Activities | Tags: , , ,

  2. Negotiating an Aging Body

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    August 17, 2015 by Jean

    The year I was fifty, after a lifetime of exceptionally good health, I found myself facing a series of medical …
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  3. Feeling Blue (berries)

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    August 9, 2015 by Jean

    One of the pleasures of late summer in Maine is native wild blueberries. These are not the big, fat, cultivated …
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    Category: Living, Maine | Tags: , , , ,

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.

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