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Monthly Archives: September 2016

First and Last Classes
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September 26, 2016 by Jean

I’m chagrined to realize that I’ve let two weeks slide by without posting here. It really is a busy season! …
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Category: Intellectual activity, Time/Activities | Tags: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, intellectual stimulation, Maine Senior Colleges, Master Gardener Volunteers, New England Wild Flower Society, teaching, time utilization, volunteer work
A Busy Season
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September 12, 2016 by Jean

I’m not quite sure what happened to August. One day I blinked and it was September. And September brings the …
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Category: garden, home ownership, Intellectual activity, Living, Time/Activities | Tags: choral singing, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, garden, Maine Music Society Chorale, Maine Senior Colleges, retirement, senior college, time utilization
Values and Voting
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September 3, 2016 by Jean

I’ve been thinking about values and politics ever since a fractious online exchange with a high school classmate about the …
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Category: Living, politics | Tags: Max Weber, National Public Radio, politics and values, prosperity gospel, social gospel, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Tom Gjelten

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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