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Leah Pellegrini
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Apr 14, 2022

Reasons not to write: a non-exhaustive list.

With footnotes. Very important footnotes. Hahaha, nobody cares. Who do you think you are, [insert favorite celebrity here]? Who handed you a mic? Nobody. Nobody handed you a mic. The point isn’t that people don’t need your stories. They do. They just don’t know they do. They’re not knocking insistently…

Writing

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Reasons not to write: a non-exhaustive list.
Reasons not to write: a non-exhaustive list.
Writing

6 min read


Apr 7, 2022

The difference between loyalty and obedience — especially for writers and creators.

Plus, Mary Oliver on the “third self.” I’m taking Tomato on his ordinary morning walk around the neighborhood, and I’m beginning to write this essay in my head, scrambling the ideas together. It’s due, see? I promised I’d publish a new one every week. I will keep my promise. Mostly…

Writing

6 min read

The difference between loyalty and obedience — especially for writers and creators.
The difference between loyalty and obedience — especially for writers and creators.
Writing

6 min read


Mar 31, 2022

What writers can learn from the mantis shrimp.

…and why sensitivity is a creative person’s greatest gift. A childhood memory: I am walking down a cement sidewalk that links one winding suburban street to another, abridging the route to the neighborhood pool. The air swells with ordinary birdsong and bug sounds against a manicured backdrop of green. I…

Writing

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What writers can learn from the mantis shrimp.
What writers can learn from the mantis shrimp.
Writing

3 min read


May 14, 2021

A story about cars and callings.

There’s a group of strangers blocking the sidewalk up ahead, and so I thread myself between the nose and tail of two parked cars to walk down the middle of the street instead. That’s how I notice the necklace that dangles from the rearview mirror, tugging at my peripheral vision…

Purpose

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A story about cars and callings.
A story about cars and callings.
Purpose

13 min read


Apr 7, 2021

We must embrace the soft stuff.

On adopting a dog named Tomato, skies full of clouds, and other tender things — including a reframe of “productivity.” This story was originally published on Substack. Subscribe here! And, all of the photos included were shot on film in the Bay Area — around my neighborhood in Oakland, along…

Productivity

10 min read

We must embrace the soft stuff.
We must embrace the soft stuff.
Productivity

10 min read


Mar 15, 2021

On the “anniversary effect”

and the stories told by the vaccine rollout, from the perspective of a person with Type 1 diabetes. Our recycling bin is currently feathered with the torn-up shreds of last week’s New York Times magazine, and the reason is that I’m a freelancer. Since I’m self-employed, I have to buy…

Pandemic Reflections

7 min read

On the “anniversary effect”
On the “anniversary effect”
Pandemic Reflections

7 min read


Published in Curious

·Aug 25, 2020

A Story about Breeze, Birds, and Breath.

On hard conversations, confrontation, and the craving for quiet. — I have been thirsty for silence. Silence like seltzer from a just-cracked can, the fizz stinging the tongue on its way towards the long glug. Like a steaming shower on jittery limbs. Like when you’ve just gotten out of the ocean with tentacled hair clinging to pink shoulders, and you…

Confrontation

10 min read

A Story about Breeze, Birds, and Breath.
A Story about Breeze, Birds, and Breath.
Confrontation

10 min read


Published in Tenderly

·Aug 11, 2020

Efficiency Shouldn’t Be the Goal

On growing tomatoes and the insidiousness of work culture — If this were any other year, there’s so much I’d want to show you and tell you about. About the first roasted tomatoes of the season, bubbling under their blistered skins, devoured three days in a row for lunch or dinner because why would anyone ever eat anything else? About…

Farming

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Efficiency Shouldn’t Be the Goal
Efficiency Shouldn’t Be the Goal
Farming

8 min read


Apr 10, 2020

A story about foraged flowers.

The only sound is the snickering of candles we’ve arranged on the edge of the sink and the closed toilet seat, their flames flickering gold on our forehead sweat. Is the occasional swoosh of the shallow water that we swirl with our bath-puckered hands, just to sense movement. Is the…

Quarantine

8 min read

A story about foraged flowers.
A story about foraged flowers.
Quarantine

8 min read


Published in Human Parts

·Aug 8, 2019

A Study in Gaps

Finding meaning in the spaces between — GAP, noun \’gap\ : (1) a difference, especially an undesirable one, between two views or situations (2) an incomplete or deficient area (3) an assailable position Katie Ledecky carves water into shards as the construction men shatter the street outside our house, hunting for the source of the leak. The…

Fiction

33 min read

A Study in Gaps
A Study in Gaps
Fiction

33 min read

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Leah Pellegrini

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Writer, farmer, etc, just trying to make Mama Nay proud.

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