The Adventures of ReadingGrrl

Adventure: an unusual and exciting, experience or activity.

Native Heritage Day: Land Back

Now if that isn’t a hot button issue I don’t know what is. Do you know whose lands you live on? Do you know the history of where you live? Don’t you think you should? I reside in Pennsylvania on the stolen lands of the Lenape people. Does that mean I should turn over the…

November 25, 2022
Visualization:the formation of a mental image of something.

My wise friend Joe Longo (Inspirecreatemanifest.com)told me that before the holiday season he uses visualization to think about what he would like his holidays to look like. I love this and I’m definitely going to use this practice this year. Holidays can be so stressful, with my daughter not wanting to participate if my wife…

November 24, 2022
Chaos:Complete Disorder and Confusion

Chaos surrounds addicts and I’ve come to believe that those of us who love them or have been around a lot of people addicted to different substances become addicted to the drama and chaos. It’s what we know and we become comfortable there in a twisted way. I never realized how much it effected me…

November 23, 2022
Aging Parents

This one is a struggle for me. My mom is almost 80, she is pretty self sufficient except when she is sick. Then she turns into a little kid needing to be taken care of. And she is sick a lot! It’s frustrating and difficult. I’m an only child so she relies on me, however…

November 22, 2022
Parent – a person who brings up and cares for another

Parenting. Probably the hardest thing you will ever do in your life. I have 3 biological children and had 2 step daughters who are my wife’s biological children. Blending our families was difficult and didn’t go very well. My kids are much older and her children were very different than mine. We tried but there…

November 19, 2022
Crystals & Stones

Above you will find some of my crystals that I have around my house. Rose Quartz (the big round ball) is a self care necessity for me. It’s a heart healer and will bring you into focus with your strength and power. It blesses you with compassion. Tigers Eye (the brownish ball) is to help…

November 17, 2022
Eclipse Energy

So if you didn’t know we had a lunar eclipse last week – it was the last full lunar eclipse for a while and we will be sitting in this energy for approximately 6 months. What energy is it? It’s the energy of letting go and figuring out how you aren’t showing up for yourself…

November 15, 2022
Keeping Busy

My son and his girlfriend are moving into my old home, his childhood home, which has been rented out to various people for a few years. It was seriously in need of some updates and a big clean out. We decided to redo the kitchen, add a powder room, clean everything out and paint. Replace…

November 5, 2022
Things that make me smile

Yesterday was a bit of a downer of a post so I thought I would brighten it up a bit. We found a box of kittens on the porch where my step-daughter lived and died. She loved rescuing animals so we knew the box was her doing. Since most of her belongings were tossed out…

November 2, 2022
Grief – Deep sorrow, especially caused by a loved ones death

I can’t very well write about the day of the dead and not mention grief now can I? Things have been hard this past year. We lost my step-daughter to fentanyl last September, she was twenty. Grief takes many twists and turns and doesn’t ever look the way you think it will. I noticed that…

November 1, 2022