And I Forgot to Mention the New Graphic Novel Section

There’s so much reading to be done that I think I might need to find a shortcut.

The thing is I feel like I missed something or I actually do miss the best most important part. For a little while I tried speed reading. What worked best for me was having a huge reading rotation and spending hours at the library regularly. Things are different now but also, I have better understanding of access to books that can change me while I read them.

Can we talk for a minute about how much more books are accessible now?

I can literally go on Project Gutenberg and read over 70k books for free from my phone or computer. We have Jstor where we have access to 10 free Journal articles a month which is honestly more than enough for one person. Now this one is a bit a touchy but there’s a lot of quality articles from good thinkers on Substack that you can read for free and also lists of amazing resources outside of the Substack community. YouTube has a ton of free audiobooks, especially the classics which I love. Plus, we still have libraries that are going above and beyond to make reading more accessible. There’s no more late fees, you can drop your books off at any library and they’ll be returned, and you can have books from other libraries sent. Not to mention their eBook apps where you can borrow an eBook. We did not have this as children and I’m so glad that I can take advantage of all this for my kiddos. It makes a difference in ways they don’t even know, and I like it that way.

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Care and Intention

I celebrated my birthday today and it was perfect! I couldn’t have asked for anything more!!

I’m growing older but I still feel like I’m just starting to learn to live in depth. So many goals have been smashed in 2026 and I’m still living and breathing. I don’t want to miss out while smashing goals though, I want to live while I smash them. And that might mean that goals take longer to reach but they will be reached with care and intention at the forefront. And I can’t think of a better way to live.

Here’s to another amazing year of living and breathing with care and intention.

What Can You Create?

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart: Inspirational Thoughts for Living Your Best Life

There’s things that happen that are out of our control like this upcoming storm. It completely ruined my birthday plans. Completely out of my control but what I have in my control is what I can around the house to make my day more enjoyable.

We can write our stories how we desire. It can turn out to be something different once we finish but we get to decide whether it’s worth finishing or if it should be scrapped. Writing is the liberation from the limitations of this world. I believe that.

There’s so many limitations the world wants to place on us. From how we dress to the way we talk there are expectations we are expected to meet whether we want them placed on us or not. When we close the door to write those things drift away and we can sing and dance through our poetry.

The Buzz of Life

The light buzzes behind my 🐝

eyelids that weigh more 🐝

than the ad offers. 🐝

An accumulation of information 🐝

only to get lost somewhere 🐝

inside a mind that stretches 🐝

across the universe. 🐝

Do I float to retrieve it 🐝

or let it go?

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

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Contentment

You rolled off my sacred tongue and into some place.

where there’s few passing cars and trees

lots of trees.

Who am I to find you where you are?

What am I to do when I seek you?

I’m content in the comfort of my own writing chair

illuminated by the words scrolling across the screen.

And if I get there,

what’s to become of this corner

where my imagination can run free?

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

I had to Experience Publishing my Novel

“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson


I didn’t see how or when I’d ever finished my first novel, but somehow, I managed to make it to the end. It was a humbling experience that I needed to have. It had to happen because for some reason it was my finish line, but when a writer publishes a book, it’s not the finish line. The finish line is either death or the place of your choosing. Don’t get me wrong, publishing your work is something worth celebrating! The thing is if you plan to publish novelssss, it’s just one piece of a potentially lifelong process. Now that the ghost of my unpublished novel is done nipping at my heels, I can get back to being a writer.

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