Monthly Archives: December 2015

  1. A Single Woman’s Holiday

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    December 21, 2015 by Jean

    Christmas morning. I will be up early, before the sun, to begin preparing Christmas dinner. I will plug in the …
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    Category: Living, Social relationships | Tags: , , ,

  2. Social Life

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    December 15, 2015 by Jean

    One of the trickier aspects of retirement for me is finding the right balance between social life (connection with others) …
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  3. The Virtues of Aging

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    December 1, 2015 by Jean

    Recently, I read Jimmy Carter’s book, The Virtues of Aging (Ballantine, 1998), written when Carter was in his mid-seventies. He …
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    Category: Aging, Reading, Time/Activities | 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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