More than half of communication is nonverbal. Unless this is your first visit to Miss Pivot, you’re not surprised. Body language plays a huge role in our interactions with others. You can figure out when someone is attracted to you, when someone is checked out of the conversation, and when someone would rather be talking [...]
Thanks to public school vacation time, I spent last week in Washington, DC with some friends from college. From my first night there right through unpacking my suitcase back home, they made the case for moving to DC. These are some amazing friends, and I will admit that I’m tempted. One of the more compelling [...]
Have you ever found yourself not knowing someone’s name? Someone whose name you should know, so you feel silly asking? So you don’t ask. You slide by on talking to them when they look at you, coming up with generic nicknames, and eavesdropping in the hope of catching their name. The longer you wait to [...]
Over the course of my St. Patrick’s Day, I made a lot of new friends. I cheered on a bagpiper wearing a kilt, carded a German man because his name sounded like something you make up, and attempted to push over a firefighter because his friend told me it couldn’t be done. (He was correct, [...]
