Category Archives: Book Reviews

Day Nine In “the story of WITH: A Better Way to Live, Love & Create” Mia rides the elevator up to the second floor and enters a kitchen full of delightful smells and people creating them. Before she knows it she is selecting seven ingredients for her own creation with the help of other likeContinue reading “Ingredients”

Day Eight Mia finds herself in the middle of the ocean. Shay, a surfer grabs her and places her on his paddleboard. In “the story of WITH: A Better Way to Live, Love & Create” by Allen Arnold, she learns how to be expectant for the perfect wave to get to shore with Shay. SheContinue reading “Waves”

Day Seven Iona has revealed to Mia in “the story of WITH: A Better Way to Live, Love & Create” that the Story she has been living in is a lie. She now has to start her real Story in a Brownstone building. She has to fill vials at each floor of her Story toContinue reading “Brownstone”

Day Six Allen Arnold takes us deeper into the Orphan Realm in “the story of WITH: A Better Way to Live, Love & Create”. Mia runs into Iona who says Mia’s father was with her years ago. Mia wants to leave but stays so she can find out more about where her dad went. TheContinue reading “Invitation”

Day Five In “the story of WITH: A Better Way to Live, Love & Create” by Allen Arnold Mia finds herself at a cross roads. In the distance she sees a sign to civilization. The other is an overgrown path where she finds the remains of her father’s truck. He has been missing for twenty-threeContinue reading “Signs”

Day Four Allen Arnold’s, “the story of WITH: A Better Way to Live, Love & Create” takes us further in our journey with Mia. She gets off her bench and meets an old guy playing a guitar. His memory is bad and he gives her a name tag for her to write her name onContinue reading “Names”

Day Three “the story of WITH: A Better Way to Live, Love & Create” by Allen Arnold leads us deeper into Mia’s story. During her life she has experienced many disappointments from her father’s leaving, mother’s rejection, feeling invisible in school, and being unemployed with unpaid bills. With no support through friends or family sheContinue reading “Nightmares”

Day Two – Part 2 – The Blue Door Mia is the first character we meet in “the story of WITH: A Better Way to Live, Love & Create”. Within the same day she loses her job as a waitress and an opportunity to be at Strava Food Group. One of the hiring personnel toldContinue reading “Dreams”

Day One – Part One “the story of WITH: A Better Way to Live, Love & Create” has three parts with eighteen chapters in part two. The first and last part are commentary. This review will cover these twenty parts and how I was impacted by this story that Allen Arnold wrote with God forContinue reading “Hunger For More”

I love to read and based on a reading challenge I strive to read various books during the year. After reading those books generally a book review is posted in this blog. For my advent adventure that book review was for twenty-five days. A few days ago I posted a book review about “the storyContinue reading “With It?”