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Month: December 2011

Reflection in the midst of busy

May 23, 2017December 9, 2011 by Shay

Is it just me? I swear the years are flying by, seems like only yesterday it was January, where the heck did the time go? Here we are in December, thick in the midst of the holiday madness, where finding time to just think and be is harder to find. Yet for someone whose rhythms …

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Categories Midlife Changes, personal growth, Random babble Tags life changes, taking stock of life 1 Comment

Not so joyful over at Joyful Harvest…needing help

May 7, 2020December 7, 2011 by Shay

Times are truly rough and for those of us in the helping professions we are really feeling the effects of the economy. I had been fortunate that the agency I run had been more or less insulated from the economic downturn; in fact we saw our revenues increase at the same time we started seeing …

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Categories Maine, Poverty Tags Biddeford Maine, Joyful Harvest Neighborhood Center 3 Comments

You don’t always get what you want, it’s called adulthood!

May 23, 2017December 4, 2011 by Shay

You ever wake up and realize that for all the fun you get to have as an adult that sometimes being an adult, plain old sucks? The older I get, it’s started to set in that when making decisions you have to think not only short term but long term, that’s where I am now. …

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Categories Growing Up, Midlife Changes, personal growth, Random babble Tags decision making 4 Comments
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