Today is Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Good Morning,

🙏🏽Small Talk: The other day it was 40 degrees! I was debating whether I needed a coat! 🤣 Also, have you noticed it’s still sunny in the evening now. Wahhooo! It’s staying lighter longer. (But at the same time, I love the dark)

📝 In case you missed yesterday’s post, here’s what I shared.

“New moons are a great time to let go. It’s not required, but it helps to have a designated cycle where you are intentional about letting something go that might be weighing heavy on you.”

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Great News

I just finished my first novel. It’s called Writer’s Quest: A Triptych. It’s an experimental fiction novel inspired by the triptychs that hang in Catholic churches. Just like triptych paintings have three panels that tell one story, Writer’s Quest has three distinct parts that tell one story. The art doesn’t end there; the story explores the metamorphosis of a woman who’s in search of her mom. So fun to read! Buy it here.

Letting Go

New moons are a great time to let go. It’s not required, but it helps to have a designated cycle where you are intentional about letting something go that might be weighing heavy on you.

You carry some things for a reason. Maybe they kept you safe. Maybe they’ve become part of your identity, so letting go of one aspect means letting go of 15 other things. Maybe you’re flat-out just ready to get rid of it.

No matter where you are in your letting go process, there’s one important tool you must show up with, and that’s compassion. Letting go isn’t some machine you can just switch on and off. It takes self-reflection and attention to detail. That’s why it’s not always easy. There’s nothing wrong with you when it feels like letting go isn’t working. It just means you get a chance to practice self-compassion.

Do You Need Words?

This thing we have

it’s biblical. Feels as sacred as the womb of a woman who saw

Jesus.

You know

this thing we have runs deeper

than most.

I lay my bones at the foot

of our holy place.

Chest against chest.

Bones against bones

clatter and dance.

Tongues dipped in wine

dipped in kisses.

Fingers searching fingers in linins.

What is this thing we have you ask?

All I can say is that

We are humans being

humans.

-Saschia

👇🏽If you liked this poem, you’ll love this novel. 👇🏽

A Poem

Desire Eyes

They shift and blink and stare.

Some day they may find you here

free from chains,

shaking loose the nightmares

that keep you cooped up

in the house. I know you’re stuck in that insane

loop.

Sit still so I can untie you.

-Saschia

Ealier on Substack I posted…

The truth is, regardless of whether there was fanfare about it or not, the minute I acknowledged my desire to be a writer, I was changed for good. I wrote Writer’s Quest knowing that writing was my way through this world. I wrote it to sleep. I wrote through depression. I wrote through good times. This novel is etched with all the stuff life has offered me. Telling the story using different narratives helped me to shine a light on the different perspectives of the way life unfolds.

Let me show you.

Book I: The Book of Anie-Ma is Literary Fiction Magical Realism
Metamorphosis as a Hinge is a Narrative prose poem
Book II: The Book of Senta is Fantasy
Arrowmaker as Hinge 2 is an Oral Telling
Book III: Revelations is Speculative fiction

Writing Communities

We get to see the world through our own eyes and we get to participate in our own ways. The awesome part is that we also get to contribute what we see too. That’s the fun thing about writing; it can be all of that in one. Yes, there’s a lot of time alone putting words down on the page, but there’s time to share your thoughts during creation. There’s time to get feedback. And there’s time to gift all your hard work to readers around the globe.

And you know what, I found the perfect quote by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer from The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society that said, “We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.”

And isn’t that it!

Writing alone and with others is the point. To help expand our perception just a little further than it was when we started. To explore new ideas even when they get under our skin. To take risks and have people right there next to us.

It feels right.

Writing communities feel right.

What are Your Interests?

When it comes to writing, I think it’s important to draw from your interests.

It’s interesting; I was in class and I sat next to my friend; we even did a group project today. It was fun. I really enjoyed it. The thing is that the class project was so interesting that I didn’t have to think so much about the words I was using. I just shared and listened.

We go into our writing space and we pour our thoughts onto a page. In that moment when we’re pouring, it doesn’t matter so much what we say; it matters that we get it out.

These words aren’t supposed to be inside us forever.

They are supposed to be developed and shared with those who are willing to hear us out. When we draw from our interests, we are better able to pour the words out.

What are you interested in? Let’s see if we have some in common!

Great News

I just finished my first novel. It’s called Writer’s Quest: A Triptych. It’s an experimental fiction inspired by the triptychs that hang in Catholic churches. Just like triptych paintings have three panels that tell one story, Writer’s Quest has three distinct parts that tell one story. The art doesn’t end there; the story explores the metamorphosis of a woman who’s in search of her mom. So fun to read! Buy it here.

Today is Thursday, February 12, 2026

Good Morning,

🙏🏽Small Talk: Spring is so close, I can already smell the flowers.

☝🏽Gentle thought: I think rest is important.

📝 In case you missed yesterday’s post, here’s a quote I shared.

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.” -Mary Oliver

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“Let the Soft Animal of your Body Love What it Loves”

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.” -Mary Oliver

In honor of Valentine’s Day, I had to share a piece of this poem from Mary Oliver. Doesn’t she make love sound so simple? “All you have to do” We do often complicate love, don’t we? Joseph Campbell just came up on my feed tonight, and his advice on how to slay the dragon was to “follow your bliss.” We really be out here following everyone else’s dreams and goals and forgetting all about our own. Or we listen to others and let them talk us out of our biggest dreams. We don’t have to do all that. Instead of letting the world tell you who you are, figure that out for yourself. I think that’s the best love you can give to the world.

What’s your best life? Are you living it?

Today is Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Good Morning,

🙏🏽Small Talk: Heey, I’m so glad you’re here.

☝🏽Gentle thought: You can do hard things.

📝 In case you missed yesterday’s post, here’s a quote I shared.

The process of writing my first novel has come to completion.

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Interested in reading my novel? I got you! Here’s the link to my Ebook.