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    Life In My Lane: I Thought My Father Was a Superhero
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • a day ago
    • 5 min

    Life In My Lane: I Thought My Father Was a Superhero

    By Annie Newcomer: I love looking back to the innocent time in my life when I truly believed that my father was a superhero. My sister an...
    17 views0 comments
    The Strange Tears of Joe Florance
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • 6 days ago
    • 5 min

    The Strange Tears of Joe Florance

    By Joe Florance: I have been called a robot on a few occasions. Emotional repression ran roughshod in my family of origin. "There, there ...
    31 views0 comments
    Be My Valentine
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Feb 11
    • 2 min

    Be My Valentine

    By Jillian McWhirter: By now, you all must know, I’m a hippie at heart. I don’t wear my flowing, flowered torn skirts anymore, my hair is...
    79 views0 comments
    An Ode to Mount Jumbo
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Jan 5
    • 4 min

    An Ode to Mount Jumbo

    By Gillian Kessler: I had to say goodbye to a precious friend yesterday. Over the past nine months of this insane pandemic, he’s been my ...
    18 views0 comments
    Whispers in the Dark
    Tim Murphy
    • Dec 22, 2020
    • 5 min

    Whispers in the Dark

    By Tim Murphy: The first Christmas that I can remember I was about five. My brother Jack was a year older, my sister Terri was a year you...
    30 views0 comments
    Tater Tot: The Gift That Keeps Giving
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Dec 17, 2020
    • 3 min

    Tater Tot: The Gift That Keeps Giving

    By Jillian McWhirter: Have you ever had a gift that keeps giving? Those are the gifts that mean the most to us. And guess what? Most of t...
    118 views3 comments
    Dancing in the Dark
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Nov 27, 2020
    • 7 min

    Dancing in the Dark

    By Hilary Thomas: Sunday night, I had my very first performance without her. I braced myself. Embraced myself with my dancing. Tomorrow i...
    16 views0 comments
    The Cutest Wishes Ever Made
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Nov 17, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Cutest Wishes Ever Made

    By Catherine Bares: Thanksgiving Day Despite the messy results, part of my family duties at Thanksgiving is carving the turkey. Undeniabl...
    56 views0 comments
    Oh Lordy! I Have Siblings!
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Oct 20, 2020
    • 3 min

    Oh Lordy! I Have Siblings!

    By Jillian McWhirter: This is not a scary story for Halloween. This is about having siblings, all sisters—and not just one or two, but th...
    272 views0 comments
    On Grief, Burritos, and Teaching in a Masked World
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Oct 13, 2020
    • 8 min

    On Grief, Burritos, and Teaching in a Masked World

    By Gillian Kessler: I had a dream last night. I walked into my house, and you exclaimed, “My girl!” I rushed to you and put my arms aroun...
    171 views0 comments
    Finding Illumination During the Pandemic
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Oct 12, 2020
    • 3 min

    Finding Illumination During the Pandemic

    By Luke Barrow: Raise your hand if you’re a parent, home with your kids in a seemingly endless daily pandemic loop, fixated on our nation...
    70 views0 comments
    Love At First Sight
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Sep 17, 2020
    • 3 min

    Love At First Sight

    By Jillian McWhirter: Do you believe in love at first sight? Is it just for kids and puppy-dog love or does love at first sight actually ...
    255 views0 comments
    Jillisms!
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Aug 20, 2020
    • 4 min

    Jillisms!

    By Jillian McWhirter: When you’re an infant, you don’t know you have birthdays. Then it dawns on you: birthdays mean cake and gifts, so y...
    74 views0 comments
    Princess
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Jul 14, 2020
    • 3 min

    Princess

    By Jillian McWhirter: Our dear, sweet Princess, our gentle giant, our Great Pyrenees. She was physically with us for almost 12 years, and...
    270 views0 comments
    Fifty-One Years, Three Hundred and Sixty-Three Days
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Jul 13, 2020
    • 7 min

    Fifty-One Years, Three Hundred and Sixty-Three Days

    By Kim Carr: Fifty-one years, three hundred and sixty-three days. That is how long it took me to become a Great Aunt. That is when my nep...
    208 views0 comments
    Is Anybody Listening?
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Jul 7, 2020
    • 10 min

    Is Anybody Listening?

    By Tim Murphy: One of my first jobs was as a paper boy. My first first job was selling taffy apples door-to-door when I was eight. John t...
    31 views0 comments
    I Don't Want to Be a Mom!
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Jun 15, 2020
    • 4 min

    I Don't Want to Be a Mom!

    By Jill McWhirter: I shook in my red, pointy high-heeled shoes that I refused to give up for the dependable chiclet tennis shoes that no ...
    119 views0 comments
    This Old House
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • May 13, 2020
    • 2 min

    This Old House

    By Roger Desmarais: Every old house has many rooms and hideaways filled with memories of early growth and expansion through years of deve...
    22 views0 comments
    Dearest Mom
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Feb 6, 2020
    • 5 min

    Dearest Mom

    By Hilary Thomas: In November we lost our beautiful, courageous, sharp-witted, fiercely loving, passionate mother. For over a week, she w...
    95 views0 comments
    Poems by Gillian Kessler
    FLAPPER PRESS
    • Feb 6, 2020
    • 4 min

    Poems by Gillian Kessler

    By Gillian Kessler: My mama died at the beginning of this year. Saturdays are now the hardest days. Saturdays, a little before one in the...
    18 views0 comments
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