by Jamie Holloway | Dec 18, 2024 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
2024 has been a rough year in my writing life. I had high hopes of focusing on my writing, but my life had some chaos mixed in that I was not anticipating. That is why a few weeks ago when I received The Artist’s Way Toolkit by Julia Cameron I knew God was...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 30, 2024 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I have only heard about “meat pies” from my friend in Africa. He loves them. I was curious as to what they are, I was thinking is it like the chicken pot pies that my mom would make or were sold in the frozen section at the grocery store. Not only chicken pot pie...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 25, 2024 | Auto-immune, Exhilarating People, The Magnificent Journey
I am writing this on October 25, 2025. It is 12:05 in the morning. I just got the message from my sister that my mom passed away and went home to be with Jesus and my dad. My emotions are irrational, and all over the place. The younger Jamie is having a fit and...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 6, 2024 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I recently got a bunch of blood work done. I discovered that I am low in iron and my protein levels are extremely low, especially albumin. This indicates I need to eat more protein and iron rich foods and take an iron supplement. Nutrition challenges me when it...
by Jamie Holloway | Aug 2, 2024 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
“Here for It” by Amy Weatherly and Jess Johnston, a book about friendship. Authentic, complicated, and beautiful friendships. I was not sure if I was going to like this book, but it had a great Queso recipe. I am glad I read it. I like how the chapters were structured...
by Jamie Holloway | Jul 20, 2024 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
When I first read Mary Oliver’s poem “Wild Geese” I fell in love with her work. I was 25 at the time and living a painful life. Her poems, balm to my soul during painful moments in my life. For my birthday, my sister/friend Summer gifted me “Devotions”. Her latest...
by Jamie Holloway | Mar 29, 2024 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Jill Eileen Smith’s latest novel is on Noah’s Ark but done through Noah’s Wife, daughter in laws, and son’s perspective. I enjoyed this novel, like I have of the others Smith has written on Bible stories done through the woman’s perspective. I can tell...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 24, 2024 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I usually love historical novels and I was excited when I first received “The Seamstress of Acadie” by Laura Frantz. I just could not get into this book. I hate speaking unkindly about a book. I am not sure if it was the story or the writing. It just didn’t...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 9, 2024 | The Magnificent Journey
Happy New Year! A new year has begun and it is time for me to pick a new focus word for this year. I chose the word Wellness! Last year at this time I was still in the hospital fighting an infection in my right leg that started from a wound I got. They still didn’t...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 30, 2023 | The Magnificent Journey
Whoa! I never thought 2023 would never end. This year has been the most challenging, most life changing chapter of my life. During Christmas and New Year’s I was in the hospital fighting an infection in my right leg. Got out, then ended up going back in, in March...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 3, 2023 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I enjoyed reading Shadows at Dusk by Elizabeth Goddard. For one, it is a mystery set in Alaska and Montana. Second, it had a close sibling relationship, where a brother looked for his lost sister. I will let you discover what happened to her. You will not be...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 9, 2023 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I enjoy reading books with strong women characters. Again the Wind by Amanda Cabot is one of these books. Louisa, is a doctor during a time period when women were not respected or valued or even had jobs outside of the home. The storyline is really good and it...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 7, 2023 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
“On Moonberry Lake” by Holly Varni is about a woman named Cora who does not have a good relationship with her mother. Her mom dies and leaves her, she believes her grandparents lodge at Moonberry Lake with condition that she has to live there for a year. Turns...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 21, 2023 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
“Lost and Found” is about a man name Micah who is head over heels in love with a girl who runs away from their Amish community. And another girl who is in love with Micah. The two girls are sisters. This story is a love triangle that is painful and has a good...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 18, 2023 | Auto-immune, Inspiring Nutrition, The Magnificent Journey
I have been lazy this year with my blog in just doing book reviews and not writing much on my journey with healing from Sepsis and relearning my life and routines and making new life habits for myself. I will start with the one good thing that I am happy about. I have...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 9, 2023 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
“Blessed in the Mess” by Joyce Meyer blew me away. She always does. All her books have one theme in them, God works through the power of your mind. He changes your life and relationships and etc through your mind. Your mind controls your attitude, your hopes,...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 27, 2023 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I have been enjoying reading children’s books. I know, I’m a grown woman and I am reading a book for an 8 year old. They are fun, colorful, and they take me to a time when I used to read all the time and make up movies in my mind. The Inkwell Chronicles: Race...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 15, 2023 | Books/Music
My entire life I have been disabled in some form or another. When I was a freshman in high school I had my Achilles tendons stretched and I had casts on both legs for half a year. My legs and feet have always been affected by this including now. Reading...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 8, 2023 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I have been stuck in a novel that I have won off of Goodreads called “The Peach Seed” by first time author Anita Gail Jones. This is an intense history of one family and how this one carving went through generations, an ancestor carved it out of a peach seed...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 1, 2023 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
This year I have been reading more children’s books than I have ever in my life. I have some great nephews that will be born at the end of September and December and then one that was born May over a year ago. I love having these books available for me to give...
by Jamie Holloway | Aug 17, 2023 | Supporting Each Other, The Magnificent Journey, Weight
August 2023 has come upon me quickly. It has been one year since I got this massive wound on my right front lower leg that I have been wrestling with this year. This year has been hell for me a lot of hospital visits, pain procedures, leg infections, sepsis, and I...
by Jamie Holloway | Aug 11, 2023 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I am still chewing on Amanda Held Opelt’s latest book “Holy Unhappiness. I am going to talk about the part that is causing my mind to think, ponder, chew, doubt, feel hopeful, considering, and love God. It is the part where she tells her readers that Jesus did...
by Jamie Holloway | Jul 28, 2023 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I just finished a great novel by Susie Finkbeiner about two friends that will touch your heart and teach you about how to treat people and how judgmental and cruel people can be when they just assume things without the facts just because they are afraid. It also...
by Jamie Holloway | Jul 21, 2023 | Auto-immune, Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Longevity is something I have been contemplating on for a long, long time. Most people think it means to live forever. It does not. It means leaving as well as possible with what you have. That means in whatever health state I am in. It is possible. Outlive is a great...
by Jamie Holloway | Jul 19, 2023 | The Magnificent Journey
This year has been a constant movement of one disaster after another roaring its ugly head. Finally, it is slowing down. I’m able to take a deep breathe and feel a measure of peace. My focus words this year are peace and healing. My last hell moment in March 2023 with...
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