Leslie MignaultI Enjoy Being a Girl: Barbie EditionIn 1963, my cousin Laura was strawberry blonde and petite, and I was mousy brown and tall; so tall that I had to stand in the back row with…Jan 31Jan 31
Leslie MignaultI’m a teacher. I got Covid and gave it to my immuno-compromised husband.On the Monday before Election Day, I rushed home from school because I wanted to get in some phone-banking calls to registered voters in…Sep 16, 2023Sep 16, 2023
Leslie MignaultIn Memoriam Peter Lawrence SmithMy family spent our summers in the bungalow colony where my parents had met as teens, all sleeping in my grandparents’ basement. My dad…Dec 26, 2021Dec 26, 2021
Leslie Mignault“For Mom”Amazon ordering was a bit too much for my parents, and they had no need of it; living in Southern Florida as retirees, they were never…Aug 3, 2020Aug 3, 2020
Leslie MignaultWHY I’M ADDICTED TO “BUILDING OFF THE GRID”`Way back in 2019, I used to believe that people on TV who built off-the-grid, scratch houses for themselves and their families in cold…Mar 25, 2020Mar 25, 2020
Leslie MignaultThis has happened to every single woman I knowWhen I was a film student at Syracuse University in the 1970s, I was lucky enough to be matched with a mentor; a working professional with…Oct 12, 2017Oct 12, 2017
Leslie MignaultInsert College HereWhy insert college here? What a great question. It sounds so humble (Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, why do you…Dec 27, 2014Dec 27, 2014
Leslie MignaultHave Yourself a Merry…The winter I was five, my parents and I drove to Connecticut to buy a puppy my mother had found in the newspaper. The dog seemed fine to me…Dec 20, 2014Dec 20, 2014
