By Amy Carlson & Erica Lynn Priolo with Elizabeth Gracen: If you've read many of my posts on Flapper Press, you'd know that I am lucky en...

By Joe Florance: "He took it all too far, but boy he could play guitar" is a phrase that I try to incorporate daily. It's from the song "...

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 ...

By Ken Gord: I’ve been in Venice for more that two months now. Since May 4 the city opened up a lot more; we can now go to a café or rest...

By Elizabeth Gracen & Ericalynn Priolo: Quite unexpectedly, Fiona Apple has grabbed the musical flag to lead us through this pandemic to w...

By Grace KA Brewer: I read an article a while ago calling this generation "Generation Columbine." It made me realize how much I’d grown a...

By Ken Gord: I arrived in Venice, Italy, on March 12, three days after the country-wide lockdown was put into effect. At Marco Polo Airpo...

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 b...

By Flora Gonska: As the field previously full of Democratic candidates thinned, young people continued to show their support for Bernie S...

By Shan O'Connor: Spring has officially sprung. The chill in the air is beginning to be replaced by warm breezes, and our sweaters have m...

By Shanaya Daughtrey: Collectively, I think we can all agree that we have been edged out of the realm of normalcy. We are not able to go ...

By Resa McConaghy: What is an Art Gown? I made the first Art Gown, "Strawberry Kisses," 7 years ago. My mom had passed away, and I was fe...

By Will Bellaimey with Elizabeth Gracen: This is Part 2 of my conversation with Will Bellaimey, history teacher and creator of All the Pr...

By Kim Carr: Why not start from the very beginning? Read the first installments of Kim Carr's Beyond the Farm series here. As my friend B...

By Shan O’Connor: For many of us, this time of year is an awakening. We stir from the winter doldrums with a promise of rebirth and new b...

By Will Bellaimey with Elizabeth Gracen: We are living in a time of rapid change and massive uncertainty. Nobody knows what will happen i...

By Hilary Thomas: “Barf Bag Letter” was the title of an email I recently received from Lotte, a former student. I got really excited when...

By Elizabeth Gracen: Since The Gen Z Collective started in January 2020, we have been building our database and connecting with the young...

By Shanaya Daughtrey: It’s March 16th, 2020, as I sit down and write. It seems like every time I look up, I see flashes of the news, and ...

By Kim Carr: During the winter, I feed a little less than 1/2 scoop of grain per head to my cows so that they will all come up at one tim...