Lezlie Wade
Well Meaning People
A few years ago, I was directing a play out of town, and the producers put me up in a hotel. One of those Super 8-type places where the...
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Lezlie Wade
- Feb 10
- 6 min
Starving Artists
When I lived in Los Angeles, I had a friend who had a friend who made a living by getting hit by cars. As I understood it, she would wait...
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Lezlie Wade
- Dec 17, 2022
- 7 min
(B)Rats!
At one point in my early 20's, all my girlfriends seemed to collect other people’s children as though they were their own. Every coffee...
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Lezlie Wade
- Oct 28, 2022
- 8 min
Hide and Seek
This story begins with a man, dark hair like a crow with kind eyes behind tortoiseshell rims and a beard like ink—a conversation over an...
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Lezlie Wade
- Oct 2, 2022
- 6 min
Hi-ho the Glamorous Life
A month after college graduation, Showboat Festival Theatre hired me to teach their youth drama program. Like taxidermy or sheep...
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Lezlie Wade
- Aug 29, 2022
- 7 min
Safe Spaces
The closest I've ever come to being involved in any kind of insurrection was when I was in Paris a few years ago, and the Yellow Vest...
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Lezlie Wade
- Jul 19, 2022
- 8 min
Waiting for Godot
I'd been sitting on a plane at JFK airport for about 45 minutes when the pilot came on and said, "Sorry folks, but we seem to be having...
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Lezlie Wade
- May 31, 2022
- 6 min
Breaking-Up is Hard to Do.
My husband told me about this woman he knows whose boyfriend dumped her while she was at work. He texted her, saying: When you get home...
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Lezlie Wade
- Apr 25, 2022
- 8 min
Poisonous Relationships
There are certain situations where I find myself overly stressed. For example, while checking out my groceries at the grocery store, I...
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Lezlie Wade
- Mar 30, 2022
- 7 min
Make a Wish
"Can I have a birthday party?" I asked my mother a few days before I turned five. "No. They're too much trouble," she replied and...
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Lezlie Wade
- Feb 24, 2022
- 6 min
Grant Writing 101
I recently purchased a copy of Grant Writing for Dummies because I'm an idiot when it comes to applications. Full disclosure, I've never...
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Lezlie Wade
- Jan 26, 2022
- 7 min
Island Living
"I have to go to Bermuda," I announced to my father one afternoon in September. "Have to, as in, longing to go?" my father asked. "As in,...
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Lezlie Wade
- Dec 28, 2021
- 9 min
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
When I was young, no one ever sat me down and told me that I could do anything I wanted. There were no pep talks about how I could...
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Lezlie Wade
- Nov 30, 2021
- 7 min
No Strings Attached
About three weeks into my studies at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, my acting teacher, Mr. Gushee, asked me, "How did you hear...
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Lezlie Wade
- Oct 30, 2021
- 7 min
Food for Thought
A few years ago, my husband and I were at a production of Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway when the woman next to me pulled out a bag of...
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Lezlie Wade
- Oct 1, 2021
- 7 min
Bizarro World
Tonight, was one of those popcorn and banana muffin dinners I have very infrequently, but still more often than I care to admit. I didn't...
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Lezlie Wade
- Aug 30, 2021
- 7 min
What's So Funny?
A few weeks ago, our next-door neighbour had guests staying at her B & B for the long weekend and for three days straight, they sat in...
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Lezlie Wade
- Jul 26, 2021
- 8 min
The Meaning of Life
At one time in my life, I lived in Los Angeles. It seemed like a crazy place for me to end up since I never had any inclination towards...
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Lezlie Wade
- Jun 28, 2021
- 1 min
At The Zoo
One day when I was barely two My Father took me to the zoo. Because I was too small to see, He had to lift and carry me. Inside his arms,...
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Lezlie Wade
- May 30, 2021
- 8 min
A Breath of Fresh Air
The summer after my first year of theatre school, I was sleeping on the living room floor of my cousin's apartment in Toronto, trying to...
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