title: Whipped Cream on Rain: A Poetic Journal of a Caregiver
author:  Karen Gillman 
description: Karen Gillman is a psychologist in private practice in Winslow, Maine. She serves on the Board of Examiners of Psychologists for the State of Maine and on the Board of Directors of Veronica Sacred Arts, Inc. She is a graduate of the SOPHIA program, traditional Acupuncture Institute, Columbia, Maryland, and takes great pleasure in co-leading healing workshops with one of her daughters,Sandy River, a licensed acupuncturist. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the State University of New York at Albany, an MS. in family development from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a B.S. in education from Oklahoma State University.
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  Chapter 1
  
  > February 1925
  
  If there was only one thing Mimi Waters was good at, it was getting me to do
  things I wouldn’t normally do.
  
  She was waving a golden tube of lipstick under my nose, saying, “Come on, just
  try it! I’ll show you how to do it and everything, just try it. Please? I
  promise it’s the bee’s knees, Hazel MacClare. You’ll love it.”
  
  I’m sure I will. “I don’t know, Mimi,” I said hesitantly, refusing to take the
  lipstick that was still being waved in front of my face. “What if my mother
  sees me wearing it? She’ll have kittens! She’ll think I’m a…flapper.” I
  whispered the last word, afraid someone would overhear even though I knew
  Mimi’s mother wasn’t home and her maid was downstairs in the kitchen.
  
  Mimi laughed, a rich, infectious sound that pulled a smile to my lips and had
  me fighting not to join in.
  
  She couldn’t have cared less if anyone accused her of being a flapper. She was
  one. But I knew her mother wasn’t thrilled—her dark expression every t