Mark Leslie's Blog

Mark Leslie is a writer, editor and bookseller who lives in Southern Ontario. In 2005, Mark joined the blogging bandwagon and started posting random thoughts and musings on writing, bookselling and being a father.

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Adam@home

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I've been following the Adam @ home comic in the daily newspaper, often thinking about how great it would be to be a work-at-home dad, ...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Homeward Bound

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A visit to the Doctor's yesterday revealed that the fever, achy feeling, tight painful throat and nasty headache I've had for the pa...
Monday, April 25, 2005

And In This Corner, Weighing 18 Lbs

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I just finished wrestling with my nine month old son trying to get him into his undershirt and sleeper. Yeesh, you'd think at 6 feet 3 ...
Friday, April 22, 2005

Child-Proof But Not Idiot-Proof

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Francine and I recently deployed child-proofing items all through our house. Last night while trying to plug in the rechargable baby monitor...
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Thursday, April 21, 2005

The Gum Chewing Girl

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Every few days on the GO train ride home, there's this lady -- always well dressed, sophisticated looking and offering a polite smile to...
Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

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I realized that my last several posts were on the following subject matters: The GO Train, beer and characters from Cheers. After careful se...
Monday, April 18, 2005

An Ode To Heather

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At the end of this week, Heather, a GO travel companion for the past several years, will no longer be riding on the morning East-bound train...
Wednesday, April 13, 2005

The First Sweet Tap

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I'll always remember tapping my first keg. A nice 20L keg of Rickard's Red . After a weekend of unsuccessfully tapping the keg, and ...
Friday, April 08, 2005

You Can Pick Your Friends . . .

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. . . and you can pick your nose; but you can't pick your friend's nose. My son turned 9 months old yesterday. He's not all that...
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Thursday, April 07, 2005

Pat, Can I Also Buy A Vowel?

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Travelling home on the GO train the other evening, I sat near a couple of young ladies playing a "travel" version of Scrabble . ...
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Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Born In A Small Town

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So Google just did the coolest thing - they recently launched the ability to view Satellite images view their Google maps. While I was able...
Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Perfect Evening Out

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On Saturday, Francine and I enjoyed the last of our seasons tickets to Theatre Aquarius , in what was one of their best shows this year, I L...
Monday, April 04, 2005

All Hail Pictures of The GroundHog King

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It's about time I write a little note about the one, the only Toffee ( refers to character from a recent Tim Horton's television a...

When The Dog Bites, When The Bee Stings

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I'm tired of having to share this planet with so many jackasses . By that I mean people out there who have little or no regard for other...
Friday, April 01, 2005

Spring Has Sprung

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Spring has sprung The grass is riz I wonder where My hairpiece is When I got out of the shower this morning I noticed that those little forw...
Thursday, March 31, 2005

Fool Me Once

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I'm the type of person who would rather show up for something 3 hours early than 5 minutes late. Therefore, every year, on March 31st, ...
Monday, March 28, 2005

Attack of the Carpet Critter

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I was recently trying to describe the way that my son gets around and the best way I could come up with describing his lurch-crawl pattern i...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Ol' Four Eyes Is Back In Town

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After about twenty years of wearing contact lenses, I'm now back to wearing glasses. A recent visit to the eye doctor revealed a not-un...
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Monday, March 21, 2005

Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia

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"I looked in the mirror today My eyes just didn't seem so bright I've lost a few more hairs I think I'm . . . I'm goin...
Friday, March 18, 2005

It's In His Kiss

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This particular blog is about my pal Taras Shuper - or Shup (pronounced Shoop) - I'm too lazy to put the little funky character above th...
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