By Catherine Bares: I have attended many training seminars and listened to many speakers over the years in my career. During one of these events, I heard a s...

By Kim Carr: Click here to start at the beginning of Kim Carr's "Beyond the Farm Gates" series. By the time my friend Barb and I pulled back into her drivewa...

By Orsi Crawford: How is everyone doing in social isolation? My family and I are trying to stay positive, trying to find new activities we can do together; w...

By Lauren Maher: Yoga nidra, often referred to as “yogic sleep,” is a step-by-step guided meditation that is designed to release stress from the body. It is ...

By Anne Trominski: So, here I am, an amateur blogger, writing up my little stories about plant-based eating, and I have the time, so today seems like a good ...

By Orsi Crawford: As I write this, the world is experiencing a global pandemic, with the "official" number of deaths worldwide at almost 4,000 people with ov...

By Orsi Crawford: What we know about COVID-19 is that it is "novel," meaning a new type of coronavirus that we do not have previous immunity built up against...

By Lauren Maher: Lately I’ve been pondering the “double bind” that trauma creates. One of the tragedies of trauma is that it puts us in an untenable position...

By Elizabeth Gracen: The Flapper Press by-line Useful Words, Inspiring Stories, Eclectic Perspectives means that our mission is to provide information, encou...

By Orsi Crawford My name is Orsi Crawford, and here's my brief journey of a mystery illness that has changed my life. Honestly, I cannot put a date on when t...

By Lauren Maher: Though many of us give little thought to our breath throughout the day, the act of breathing is indeed profound. Breath links us to the deep...

By Elizabeth Gracen: Flapper Press has expanded to include a Mind/Body category to help our readers live their best lives as stress free as possible. We real...

By Simon Keegan: Simon Keegan, a 6th Dan black belt, explains the history of Dan grades. In Japanese martial arts, grades from black belt and above are known...

By Elizabeth Gracen: Flapper Press is proud to feature the work and musings of Dr. Roger Desmarais—poet and professional consultant to major firms, governmen...

By Roger Desmarias: When we think of "Hood," we usually do not reflect on the quality or mea of the particular “Hood” we inhabit: "childhood" is too far remo...

By Roger Desmarais: The tides of life relentlessly recreate their shores, moving the boundaries between sand and sea, creating space and opportunity for the ...

By Brandon Alter: I was thinking about the beautiful Mary Oliver poem "Wild Geese." In this poem, she refers to the “soft animal of your body,” and it struck...

By Roger Desmarais: For a long time, the Velveteen Rabbit lived in the nursery and no one thought much about him. He was naturally shy and being made of velv...

By Roger Desmarais: The "Gifts" of Aging for the elderly can be defined as an “outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual love.” Apart from any reli...

By David Van Etten: What follows are some public posts I made over the past year, related to my fight against colorectal cancer. My mom beat colon cancer whe...