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About Heather

Inage of author and blogger of A Work in Progress

Heather Spiva is a freelance writer and blogger from Northern California. Her work has appeared in many books, blogs, and magazines like Chicken Soup for the Soul, Guideposts, Mamalode, Grown and Flown,  Minimalism Life, and No Sidebar. She has written three books, loves selling and wearing vintage, and is a married mom to two boys. Minimalism, slow living, and slow fashion are the tenets of her preferred way of living. 

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Welcome! I hail from Northern California where I'm in love with the simple things of life; a slower way of living. 

This blog is all about a simple but good life. While it began years ago as an outlet for my creative writing - and there are a lot of articles on the art of writing - it is ultimately about everything that happens in my life centered around slow living.

I still often write about books and the craft of writing, and here are a few past posts about writing and the art of writing well. You can find many more throughout this blog. Look for the search bar and type in “writing.” Here are a few to whet your literary appetite.


The older I get, the more I want to simplify my life and take note of the good things around me. Getting to write about it makes me happy. So I've added a huge element of slow living to the blog which fits in well with writing because both writing and reading are attributes of slow living.

I have a few English degrees and have written a few books. The Puzzle Master is a middle-grade book I published a few years back. I have a huge love for middle-grade fiction, it's what gave me my love for reading and writing decades ago, and keeps me writing today. 

I also wrote How to Open an Etsy Store and How to Wear Vintage with Style: two e-books I wrote and published on my vintage clothing Etsy site. Writing and vintage are both dear to me and being able to combine both of my loves - like this blog- is a daily dream come true.

I live in sunny Northern California and along with doodling down ideas and dialogue for stories, and articles, as I previously mentioned, I also love vintage clothing -- both wearing and selling it. 

If you're interested in more about slow fashion and vintage fashion, visit my vintage blog called Perennial Vintage Supply. This blog covers all sorts of things active in the vintage community from dating vintage items, to background research on specific designers, to sale updates in my online vintage shop! If you love vintage and slow fashion like I do, this blog may be right up your alley. I post almost every day; a vintage journal, if you will.

If you're interested in more about minimal living, visit my minimal living blog called Simply Minimally. This is where I get to the nuts and bolts of the minimalist lifestyle. While this blog, A Work in Progress, does cover things that deal with minimalism, it also focuses on all aspects of slow living. 
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Below are several blog posts I've written on my minimalism blog that cover minimalism to varying degrees:


If you want more of this, head over to my minimal living blog and sign up for blog post updates. I blog once or twice a week. I would love to have you alongside me while we journey through minimal living and the minimalist lifestyle together.

Contact me if you have any questions, or have an idea for a future post. I love hearing from my readers. If there is a specific concept or aspect that you're looking for more information on, find the search bar at the top of the blog and type in what you're looking for. Or click the "archive" tab in the sidebar to your right, and scroll through articles for something that might interest you.

I’m so glad you’re here. 

-Heather 












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