by Jamie Holloway | Jun 14, 2025 | Auto-immune, Supporting Each Other
I have been on respite from blogging. I didn’t plan it. It just happened. Two years ago, as I have written before, I had sepsis from an infection from a wound on my leg. Two years is what it took for my leg wound to heal. I still have three small spots healing...
by Jamie Holloway | May 23, 2025 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I apologize for not writing for a long time. I am going through emotional and physical changes that have me in a quiet zone. My dad used to call it the silence of the soul. In silence we can listen to God speak to us. I am working to find my way back to myself. It has...
by Jamie Holloway | Mar 12, 2025 | Auto-immune, Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Caregiving is an intimate job, especially when it involves a family member or close friend. I was a caregiver for ten years for someone that I love. One of my older sisters was one for our mom until she passed away in October. It is intimidating, challenging,...
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...
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