March is women history month

I started a newspaper  in the early eighties called Especially for Women. I published the newspaper with a group of women from diverse backgrounds and ethnicity among them was a Seneca Native American friend Vivian Logan and  Dr. Shirley Harrington, African-American lived on the east side.

And I ‘m sure there were others but twenty-six years have passed since its publication started on the East and West Sides of Buffalo. I still have a copy of a feature article about me in a black and white photograph .

During the  time, I was only 30-years-old married to a Buffalo News Journalist Carl R. Allen (1956-1999). Today, the Buffalo Association of Black Journalist awards a yearly scholarship in his name to an aspiring African-American Journalist called the Carl R. Allen Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Earlier, I was writing for the Latin Journal Newspaper in 1978, while still an undergraduate student at SUNY College Buffalo. The paper had been  founded in 1974 in a storefront apartment on Virginia Street on the Lower  West Side of Buffalo.

Also, in 1980, I worked at the Buffalo Evening News in the Editorial Department as a dictation clerk  where I met my future husband Carl R. Allen and many other wonderful journalist.

I wanted to resume publishing and writing the Especially for Women Newspaper focused on the women in Buffalo, New York. If for some reason I leave this town, it stays here but i can also begin another version of it called Especially for Women at whatever city I had moved to in the future because I do want to settle somewhere else with a warmer climate.

As a Caribbean female who left the island of Puerto Rico as a young child the warm sun, blue skies and tropical breezes stay inside of me forever hoping I am able to recapture it again one day some place out there for me.

I have a beautiful daughter, I decided to bring up away from organized religion somewhat atheist and seeing how she has grown, I know it was the right decision because she does not carry around with her the emotional baggage many of us carry around from our religious beliefs.

I am somewhat of a blog queen in the City of Buffalo or a serious blogger publisher of the following on-ling blogs:  the Latin Journal Blog from the barrio, the Insurgent Teacher Blog, the Emmett Till Social Justice Blog, the Buffalo Puerto Rican Press blog, The Latin Journal and a private blog where I am attempting to begin writing a Memoir.

I thought the above photograph taken during a birthday of mine at a local restaurant best depicts the idea of Especially for Women in Buffalo, New york. We are Latina, Irish, Jewish, African-American, Puerto Rican of various sexual orientation and religious beliefs interestingly single many of us having been married all of us except for two have children most over fifty except my daughter twenty-years old at the time.

The mission and purpose of this blog is to bring together the creative ideas of a women in Buffalo, New York from all walks of life and social classes to work collectively for our common good , our families, friends to make this city a better place for ourselves and for our children to live by keeping ourselves up to date on what is happening in our community both locally, state, nationally and in the world.