Monthly Archives: November 2018

  1. Framing Aging: Second Childhood

    15

    November 14, 2018 by Jean

    In American culture, we often imagine aging as the downhill side of a parabola, a period of decline that follows …
    Continue reading

    Category: Aging | Tags: , , , ,

  2. Retirement as an Expansive Time of Life

    3

    November 3, 2018 by Jean

    I used to chuckle about retirees who claimed they couldn’t remember how they previously found time to hold a job, …
    Continue reading

    Category: Social relationships, 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.

Please join me as I step into my future.

Recent Posts

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Visit My Garden Blog

Jean's Garden

Categories

Blogroll

Archives

Meta