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Essays by Lesa Quale Ferguson

Lessons Learned: Parenting Beyond Expectations for an ADHD Child

Too Much Thinking Before Coffee

KOA: Revisiting Childhood Road Trips, Working-Class Values, and My Mom’s Unstoppable Drive

Concubines and Choirs: A Remembrance of Charlotte at Trinity Buffalo

The Stars Aligned at Big Al’s

Swaying to “Sentimental Lady” at the Skating Rink

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

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ESSAYS AND STORIES BY LESA QUALE FERGUSON

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Lessons Learned: Parenting Beyond Expectations for an ADHD Child
Lesa Quale Ferguson
October 2, 2024
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Too Much Thinking Before Coffee
Lesa Quale Ferguson
September 18, 2024
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KOA: Revisiting Childhood Road Trips, Working-Class Values, and My Mom’s Unstoppable Drive
Lesa Quale Ferguson
September 11, 2024
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Concubines and Choirs: A Remembrance of Charlotte at Trinity Buffalo
Lesa Quale Ferguson
July 19, 2024
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The Stars Aligned at Big Al’s
Lesa Quale Ferguson
July 7, 2024
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Swaying to “Sentimental Lady” at the Skating Rink
Lesa Quale Ferguson
May 30, 2024
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Lesa Quale Ferguson
May 13, 2024
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The Great Crossing
Lesa Quale Ferguson
May 2, 2024

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First Novel. Still writing it … 20 years later

I am currently taking a series of online novel writing classes through The Writer’s Workshop.

Jana Harris teaches the class. She assigned the text The Weekend Novelist by Robert J. Ray. These are posts based on the assignments.

Coming Attractions!

The Dead Pecker Bench

SHHH! Novel in Progress

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See Some Completed Assignments

I have published essays in magazines, books, and online content— online magazines, social media, websites, email marketing, and blogs.

My Publishing Credits Include:

An Expectant-Adoptive Mom for Adoptive Families Magazine.
Tiny Square Egg Noodles, an essay on nostalgia and family for the anthology Voices from the Herd: An Anthology for Buffalo, NY
There is No Substitute for the Friday Night Fish Fry; a first person essay for the September 28, 2001 edition of The Buffalo News
Infidels for the March 2001 edition of Underwire.msn.com —voted one of the five most popular essays
Radioactive Tumbleweeds an environmental essay for the anthology The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 02/01
Think Global, Act Local: The Cost; The Christian Science Monitor

Published on the now-defunct Buffalo Vibe

Here are some of the essays I wrote during my time there.

Tales from Ordinary Life

Here are narratives and stories that were inspired by life.

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