South Buffalo And The Fenian Invasion
South Buffalo And The Fenian Invasion First Published BuffaloVibe • March 15th, 2017 Every month or so, Lark arrived at my brother Scott’s tavern wired with the enthusiasm [...]
New Girl. My Adventure at Lafayette High
Once upon a time, one cold winter when I was 14, I moved from Ashland, Oregon where I lived with my mother, to Buffalo to be near my father. Over the course of the previous year, my [...]
Bullied on the Bus
Bullied on the Bus Originally published on BuffaloVibe • April 2, 2017v My eight-year-old son, Sam, stumbled off the school bus into my arms. Sam usually skips, happy to be [...]
A Rush to Coffee
Sweetness 7 First Published BuffaloVibe • March 29, 2017 sign next to the cash register and atop the bakery case reads: “If you'e in a hurry, you're in [...]
Swan Street Italians – Foraging For Greens In April
"Swan Street Italians - Foraging For Greens In April" was originally published April 20, 2017 on BuffaloVibe. This is Lesa Quale Ferguson's original work. My nana (father's mother) wrote me a series of letters [...]
Visiting Buffalo
When I was a teen, Buffalo’s greatest tourist attractions were robust home cooked meals with a galley-full of aunts, uncles, cousins, greats and grands; tradeable Sheriff's cards (without photos) for easy underage drinking; a park [...]
Swan Street Italians: Community in June
My nana (father's mother) wrote me a series of letters over the course of a year, one for every month in which she told me about her life in Buffalo. My favorite portions of these [...]
Original Mother
There are many different types of mothers -- grand, great-grand, birth, original, first, second, adoptive, step, single, divorced, God, fairy-god, nature, biological, in-law, lesbian, @#$%@, earth, deceased, stay-at-home, working, like a -- mother. And, don’t [...]
“I Spy” with the Mayor
“I spy with my-little-eye the Mayor coming through the door.” This was an attempt to wrangle and distract my four-year-old with the I Spy game. I caught him between my knees, one arm acting like a [...]