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Hey there! I’m Sandra V. Calzada, though most people know me as Tutú, the nickname my father gave me when I couldn’t quite say “tomato.” It stuck and still feels like home. It’s the name I work under, a reminder of roots, love, and the grace of imperfection.

I’m from Colombia, a place that hums with color and rhythm. I grew up with a creative father and a mother who made magic with her hands, so making things felt as natural as breathing.

Before I picked up a brush, I wrote. Since I was very young, writing helped me name what I felt: poems in the margins, diaries, handmade books, and small poetry collections that still live quietly on a shelf. A couple of years ago, I decided to pursue and finish my book, The Needle Ceiling. The process was l Hey there! I’m Sandra V. Calzada, though most people know me as Tutú, the nickname my father gave me when I couldn’t quite say “tomato.” It stuck and still feels like home. It’s the name I work under, a reminder of roots, love, and the grace of imperfection.

I’m from Colombia, a place that hums with color and rhythm. I grew up with a creative father and a mother who made magic with her hands, so making things felt as natural as breathing.

Before I picked up a brush, I wrote. Since I was very young, writing helped me name what I felt: poems in the margins, diaries, handmade books, and small poetry collections that still live quietly on a shelf. A couple of years ago, I decided to pursue and finish my book, The Needle Ceiling. The process was long, and I’m grateful I saw it through. Completing it brought me back to the discipline of language and the courage to share. I am here, humbly, offering my work and my words to the world.

After studying finance in the United States and moving to North Carolina, I began to notice life’s cracks, including my own. Painting became a way to piece things together, one deliberate stroke at a time. My geometric abstraction follows the same instinct: separate parts come into relationship until they form a new sense of wholeness.

Alongside my creative work, I also found a deep and surprising connection to programming. It became another language, another structure, another way to build. I’ve come to see code and poetry as distant cousins. Both require precision, both leave space for invention, both can solve or express. Programming challenges me to think logically while giving me tools to craft digital spaces that function, move, and sometimes even speak.

Life shifted again when I moved to the Netherlands and became a mother. Art turned from passion into practice, a daily way to process, reflect, and grow. Along the way, I fell in love with goldsmithing, with its patience, its precision, and the quiet play of metal and light.

My work is personal, yet it is not only my story. Each line, angle, function, or fragment is part of a larger narrative that belongs to anyone who connects with it. I hope you find a piece of your own story in these shapes, symbols, and codes. ...more

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The rocky path of solitude is soft.

Being alone often feels like the opposite. It feels heavy. Awkward. Your phone is quiet, the room is too silent, and every little thought suddenly gets louder. You remember old mistakes. You replay conversations. You notice how long the day actually is when no one is filling it for you. That is the rocky part.

At first, solitude can feel like something is wrong with you. You might think: everyone e Read more of this blog post »

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Sandra Calzada made a comment in the group Book Haven — New Member topic " If you want it even simpler, you could use: Hi, I’m Sandra V. Calzada, author of The Needle Ceiling. I’m here more as a reader than a writer—just looki ...more "
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a compassionate, quietly tense novel about secrets, shame, and the cost of staying silent—told with warmth and a sharp eye for family dynamics.
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I laughed—a lot. Safier’s screwball premise lands instantly: after a freak accident, self-absorbed TV host Kim wakes up as… an ant. To claw her way back up the reincarnation ladder, she has to rack up good deeds and better karma, all while peeking in ...more
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Few books change the shape of language itself. George Orwell’s 1984 is one of them. Words like Big Brother, thoughtcrime, doublethink, and Room 101 no longer belong to fiction — they belong to the world. That’s the true power of this novel: it doesn’ ...more
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