Lezlie Wade
Handle With Care
Sometimes when I can't sleep at night, instead of counting sheep, I count all the different places I've lived. When I was a kid, the...
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Lezlie Wade
- Dec 16, 2020
- 7 min
A CHRISTMAS STORY
A few Christmases ago, when in Paris, I happened to become friends with a homeless gentleman who frequented the corner at the end of my...
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Lezlie Wade
- Nov 26, 2020
- 8 min
When You Are Seen
I was sitting in a movie theatre waiting to see Inception or Perception or Deception, some movie with a title that sounded similar, when...
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Lezlie Wade
- Nov 1, 2020
- 7 min
Sex Education
My parents had the “talk” with me when I was in grade four. I came home from school one day armed with the knowledge that I knew how...
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Lezlie Wade
- Oct 1, 2020
- 8 min
The Power of Poetry
When I was growing up, my father would often refer to my mother's side of the family as though he were speaking in parenthesis. "Your...
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Lezlie Wade
- Aug 24, 2020
- 8 min
Being An Actress
I remember the moment I decided I wanted to be an actress. I was walking across the parking lot of my high school after an undoubtedly...
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Lezlie Wade
- Aug 1, 2020
- 9 min
Hitchhikers and Horror Movies
I was living in New York when one Sunday afternoon in late August, a boyfriend suggested we go and see the newly remastered Texas...
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Lezlie Wade
- Jun 30, 2020
- 8 min
The F-Word!
I was 19 years-old the first time I ever said the F-word. I remember it distinctly. I was sitting on the bleachers at the ball park not...
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Lezlie Wade
- May 28, 2020
- 7 min
Thin Ice
Before I read “Harriet The Spy” I used to carry around a small notebook into which I wrote little tidbits about people I saw on street...
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Lezlie Wade
- Apr 26, 2020
- 11 min
David & Goliath
My grandfather, on my Mother's side, immigrated to Canada from Italy in the 1950's. For years I thought I was Italian until one day, my...
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Lezlie Wade
- Mar 30, 2020
- 8 min
Lions, and Tigers and Bears!
I recently listened to hostage negotiator, Chris Voss, talk about dealing with family members during this difficult time of quarantine....
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Lezlie Wade
- Feb 20, 2020
- 6 min
Family Day
Last week was Valentine’s Day, followed closely in Ontario by Family Day, a statutory holiday started by Dalton McGinty as an election...
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Lezlie Wade
- Jan 1, 2020
- 5 min
Stangers in Strange Lands
My husband works at a five-star hotel and the stories he comes home with are enough fodder for at least several novels and a salacious...
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Lezlie Wade
- Dec 14, 2019
- 5 min
Santa Claus Parade
Today is the annual Santa Claus parade. In the small town where I live, this gesture of holiday cheer is met with enthusiasm by children...
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