Maybe extremes aren't the right way to go, you know? It's hard to get what you want out of life without making certain sacrifices. Obviously nothing about the process of moving to London was easy, but one of the things that was scariest to give up was the complete privacy of living alone. See, my …
Almost a year! ALMOST A YEAR!
I’ve been incredibly alluring to strangers lately. The particularly creepy ones. The ones who don’t see the fact I’m wearing massive headphones and largely ignoring them as reason to stop trying to talk to me. Who talk in spite of the fact that I cannot hear them for exactly long enough to get me to take …
The Continuing Story of Leslie and Chav Ghost
Back when I was in London in 2011 with my friends Nidal and Jen, I made three visits to Maison Bertaux, a place I'd looked so forward to visiting because I knew that Noel Fielding (I'm trying to think of a concise way to explain Noel Fielding to anyone who doesn't know who he is, …
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Goodbye, Ottawa: A Novel
Back in November, after a night of drinking and wonderful socialization, I found myself home in what was only to be my apartment for one week longer, and I sat down, and I wrote. I wrote something that I could share when I was moving to London, assuming what I was feeling then would remain …
Leslie Ewing-Burgesse* 