Category Small Talk

Losing Control in a Whole Foods Parking Lot

At least once a month, I drive to Raleigh to meet a running partner turned good friend for a Saturday morning run and breakfast date. Gunner and Sophie, our German Shorthaired Pointers, tag along, and we usually swap gossip about…

What I Know Wednesday

What I Know Wednesday is a bi-weekly round-up of thoughts, ideas and recommendations from the desk of Leah Jarvis. The best advice for writing is to write what you know. This is what I know. . . Moving On and…

What I Know Wednesday

What I Know Wednesday is a bi-weekly round-up of thoughts, ideas and recommendations from the desk of Leah Jarvis. The best advice for writing is to write what you know. This is what I know. . . Finding the Magic…

Iron Your T-Shirts

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It’s no secret that I work from home. I’ve been shouting about it on Twitter and to anyone who looks my way for the past month. It’s glorious, hard, rewarding, discouraging and unlike anything I have ever experienced in my…

What I Know Wednesday

What I Know Wednesday is a bi-weekly round-up of thoughts, ideas and recommendations from the desk of Leah Jarvis. The best advice for writing is to write what you know. This is what I know. . . Just Start Writing…

Stop Building Unnecessary Safety Nets

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At my college orientation, I switched my major from communications to business in a change of heart that I thought would set me up for more success in my future than writing would. I figured I would be a more…

A Lost Art

I got in trouble on my first day of Kindergarten because I could write my name in cursive. Never mind that my only motivations for learning how to write my name then was that my older sister could do something…