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Monthly Archives: March 2016

Who Benefits? A Proposal for Congressional Salaries
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March 24, 2016 by Jean

Recently, I have been reading Joseph E. Stiglitz’s The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them …
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Category: politics, Reading | Tags: Congressional salaries, income inequality in the United States, Joseph E. Stiglitz, median income in the United States, The Great Divide, U.S. Congress
Learning High
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March 19, 2016 by Jean

For as long as I can remember, I have loved going to school. Even before I was old enough to …
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Category: garden, Intellectual activity, Maine, Time/Activities | Tags: adult learning, Certificate in Native Plants and Ecological Horticulture, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Doug Tallamy, intellectual stimulation, Maine Senior Colleges, Master Gardener, senior college, time utilization
Senior Birthdays
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March 15, 2016 by Jean

Last week, I had a birthday. I’m not a person who dreads getting older. A serious cancer diagnosis when I …
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Category: Aging, Living | Tags: aging, birthdays, Bury Your Dead, living alone, Louise Penny
Tax Time
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March 10, 2016 by Jean

This is my first year filing income tax returns as a retiree. For most of my adult life, I have …
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Category: Retirement finances | Tags: Maine income taxes, retirement, retirement finances, taxes for seniors, US Federal income taxes
Botany and Beethoven
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March 3, 2016 by Jean

March is my month of intense commitment to, as one acquaintance put it, “Botany and Beethoven.” Both these activities are …
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Category: garden, Maine, Time/Activities | Tags: choral singing, intellectual stimulation, Maine Music Society Chorale, Master Gardener Volunteers, MOFGA, time utilization, University of Maine Cooperative Extension, volunteer work

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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