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Leslie Bradford Award-winning screenwriter and author of spiritual satire.

Leslie Bradford
Leslie Bradford
Northern Ontario
Member since: Sep, 2009
Last login: 07/06/2010
Last update : 07/07/2010
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  • From spiritual satire to award-winning screenplays, Leslie Bradford's ditch digging in the trenches of human behavior produces raw, insightful storytelling leaving readers wondering if they should laugh, cry or quit their day jobs.

lslbradford's Blog

  • Artists, Writers and Photographers

    July 6, 2010

  • DEAR DIETER,

    May 15, 2010

    • We’ve been bamboozled. We have been hoodwinked, flimflammed, duped, snowed and swindled out of time, money and hope.  The Diet Industry reaches into our wallets and snatches up 70 Billion dollars a year. The results of that investment? The general consensus is that 95% of dieters gain all the weight back within two years. Can you imagine if computers or cell phones had a 95% failure rate? ...
  • HUMAN BEINGS FINALLY BEING HUMAN

    May 15, 2010

    • New evidence suggests people are beginning to realize the Happily Ever After brand is a false trap.A recent study commissioned by American Express discovered Canadians are fast trading their addiction to materialism for a life full of meaning.The report revealed 28 percent of the population is on a mission to design a life of personal satisfaction. Marketing experts have dubbed this ...
  • THE SECRET: DOES THE UNIVERSE REALLY CARE?

    April 14, 2010

    • Last night, my dear friend, J.R., stopped in for the night on his way home from a trip.This time last year, J.R. and I worked together in a toxic wasteland of tyrants and ego-driven hell-makers.Who would have thought—fast-forward a year—we’d be eating a lovely dinner, drinking a bottle of wine, with a hauntingly beautiful piece of river just outside my window? Six-and-a-half acres of pure ...
  • Dust Bunny or Life Bunny?

    April 13, 2010

    •  We are a society of addicted consumers. Each household a mini-machine earning our way to the next acquisition.Take stock in your household. Look around for a few minutes. How much “stuff” do you have? The sort of useless “stuff” whose only purpose in life is to be dusted. Yeah, sure it’s pretty. But do we need it?How about your home? How much square footage to you really use. Be ...

Comments I've Written

  • Blogalicious

    Welcome, Shayne. Love your profile pic. Just like you, I dreamed about writing since I was in grade two. I did not write my first real work until I was 35.
  • Being Teen

    Hi Julie, I have 17 & 22 year-old daughters. Neither has an eating disorder, but quite frankly, I'm shocked they don't given the climate they've grown up in.
  • Pee

    What will they think of next, Sharon? Pee from a pregnant woman--yikes! I wonder what pregnant elephant pee does? Pretty soon we'll likely be washing our hair in it.

  • There's just no beginning, middle and end to this insight!

    Great entry, Christopher. Being a 'shoot-from-the-pen" kind of writer myself, in the back of my mind, structure looms like a predator in the alley. Lots of great advice here. Thanks, Leslie
  • Fabulous and Refreshing

    Marilee Pallant, The Garden That Grew Her's resident poet and my mentor wrote a beautiful note recently about why we write. "Why do we make it (art)" For ourselves? For profit?

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