by Jamie Holloway | Feb 20, 2025 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Living with chronic illness you learn alot about endurance and managing the pain and doing the impossible. I live with chronic illness and I know what endurance is. So, when I first received Iron Hope by James Lawrence I was not that inspired to read it....
by Jamie Holloway | Feb 17, 2025 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Recently, I was given an opportunity to read Ripening Time by Patrice Gopo. I have read Gopo’s children’s book All the Places We Call Home and loved it. Ripening Time is a beautifully crafted children’s book about plantains. I have to be honest, I have...
by Jamie Holloway | Feb 1, 2025 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
When I first started reading Megan Goodwin and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst book Religion is Not Done With You I was confused. I did not understand what their premise was. The title confused me a bit. I was still intrigued. Goodwin and Fuerst’s concept of...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 29, 2025 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I have been incredibly excited about Ina Garten’s memoir since I heard it was coming out in September of 2024. I find her graceful, elegant, and everything I wished I was, but sadly I am not. I am rough, I am tumble, I am made like a bull ox in a china shop. I...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 30, 2024 | Auto-immune, Books/Music, Products I Love, Supporting Each Other, The Magnificent Journey
Currently writing this post on Christmas Day! I am alone. Like I always am. I have gotten used to this new way of living. Since being chronically ill I have learned to live alone and do things alone. I am not happy about it. However, I...
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 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 | 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 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 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 6, 2023 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Another great book by Joyce Meyer. I struggled with talking to God. Actually, talking. I scream at Him. I tell him off, but talking actually take active listening too. I don’t listen sometimes if I am being honest with myself. My faith and trust in God has been...
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