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 beginnings. It is a t...

By Elizabeth Gracen: Flapper Press is incredibly lucky to have Brandon Alter and Angel Lopez as regular contributors to the site. They are both gifted healer...

By Roger Desmarais: When we are alone in our senior-hood moment of pain and frustrated at its intrusion, we can sometimes, in meditation, find places in betw...

By Brandon Alter: Don’t get me wrong, I’m not coming for science. Science is great. I’m an Aquarius, for Goddess’s sake, I love explanations and information....

By Roger Desmarais: There is a lovely wisdom contained in old phrases about life created by the elderly who have lived much of their lives and found much to ...

By Elizabeth Gracen: If you've been following me on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, you've probably heard about a new January 1, 2020 project launch called ...

By Elizabeth Gracen: “Okay, Boomer.” My kid LOVES to say that to me. “Whatever you say, Karen. Do you want to speak to the manager?” That’s another one of he...

By Roger Desmarais: What would all your old and new friends say in their eulogy of you when it is over? What could—would—you do between now and then to influ...

By Brandon Alter: A few years ago, my husband and I were on our honeymoon in the Atacama desert of Chile. We found ourselves, through a series of blessed syn...

By Tim Murphy: When I was growing up, the Vocks lived across the street. Jimmy was my brother’s age, Jannie was my age, and Jeff was my sister’s age. They we...

By Brandon Alter: Autumn awaits winter's arrival. I'm not going to pretend that I like the shorter days or the cooler temperatures, but I love these last day...

By Brandon Alter: We are just leaving the Season of Death. I don’t mean to scare you. Death should not be scary. Death should be our friend. But our Western ...

By Brandon Alter: You’re enormous, and I’m not talking about your physical body, so don’t even go there. I’m talking about your charisma, your life force; I’...

By Brandon Alter: I’m thinking about relationships. And I’m thinking about the fact that the most important relationship we will ever have is with ourselves....

By Jane E. Dritchta: I love a lot of things, and gardens are one of them. I’m not a huge gardener myself, as I live in a 700-square-foot condominium when I’m...

By Elizabeth Gracen: We continue our Making the World a Better Place series with an interview with a Denise Bell-Bottomley— an elementary school educator for...

By Brandon Alter: The more I learn, the more I realize all the teachers are saying the same thing. They say it with different words, they use different symbo...

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 Elizabeth Gracen: After reading Derek May’s review of the powerful 2018 documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor? about American icon Fred Rogers, I finally g...

By Gillian Kessler: Perfection. It’s a word that makes my stomach turn a bit. It seems like such a ridiculous notion to someone as haphazard and breezy as I ...