Author Archives: A. Fulper

For my sister, Agnes Fulper, 1937-2025 Listen to audio version, read by the author, or read full text below. When someone says the phrase, “You see, everything happens for a reason”, a cavalcade of senseless atrocities flashes before my eyes, like clicking through the tiny celluloid squares of an old View Master; …lynchings, beheadings, starvingContinue reading “Disturbing the Dust”

Or read it yourself below! (either way – scroll to the bottom to see Silvère’s illustration in full.)    The Night Nurse        In a 2005 interview, the cartoonist R Crumb, announced, “I’m 61. That’s old age…once you pass 60 you can’t call yourself middle aged anymore.”  So, according to the author ofContinue reading “The Night Nurse”

TALL is my seventh story, published by the Journal of the American Art Pottery Association. There are fifteen essays in this collection so far, but TALL was among the first written with the premise of using different pieces of Fulper Pottery to tell stories about my family. It remains one of my favorites. CLICK ONContinue reading “TALL”

For me, artichokes signify spring. Even as we speak, they are forming underground, waiting for the soil to warm them up, so that new growth can happen. And like all things that depend on the elements for survival, they too are confused by the weather. But the artichoke is stalwart. The shoots come out first,Continue reading “ARTICHOKE”

Listen to Burn On, Brief Candle read by the author: Or read full text below: BURN ON, BRIEF CANDLE! Wee Willie Winkie, Hamlet’s dad, the Bronte sisters, all would have benefitted from a candlestick with a protective backing like a hood against the draft, when they were forced to travel around the house in theContinue reading “Burn On, Brief Candle”

Listen to Bride and Cupie Dolls, read by the author (check out the bride and groom triptych at bottom of page), or read text below that: =”https://annefulper.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cupid-bride-and-groom.m4a”%5D%5B/audio%5D When I got married for the 2nd time, a dozen years after a brief dress rehearsal marriage that ended in divorce, my sister Julie was in charge ofContinue reading “Bride and Groom Cupie Dolls”

The art pottery journal which has published some of my essays over the past couple of years, asked me to write an article about how my sisters and I created a tile business based on our grandfather’s glaze recipe notebooks that we found in the attic. If you scroll down and click on the JournalContinue reading “Legacy in the Attic; the Story of Fulper Tile”

Listen to There’s Baby That Baby Again, read by the author, or read full text below: Stone Harbor, New Jersey, July, 2021. We have piled our beach chairs and umbrellas, sand anchors, towels, straw hats, soon-to-be-recalled-for-carcinogens-sunscreen, and books into the navy canvas wagon that we lug Mother Courage style across the fine white sand toContinue reading “There’s That Baby Again”

Listen to Valentine au Naturel read by the author Or read it yourself below! (either way – scroll to the bottom to see Silvère’s cartoon in full.) My French husband of 35 years is not a romantic, at least not in any stereotypical Pepe Le Pew kind of way. He rebels against the expected, holiday,Continue reading “Valentine au Naturel”

Listen to Memories on Thin Ice, read by the author w/music by Dean Martin, and Darlene Love Or read it yourself below :                                                      Memories on Thin Ice      Continue reading “Memories on Thin Ice”