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July 27, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I have not yet shared a folk or fairy tale on this blog. They are deeply powerful cultural stories, and …
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Category: Myth, folk and faery, Stories I've Told
| Tags: childbirth, children, clergy, damnation, family life, fear, folk tale, forgiveness, marriage, Minnesota Fringe Festival, pregnancy, shadow, sin, spell, storytelling, wise woman, witch
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July 20, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Most of the writing I do on this blog is not controversial. Last week was an exception. Last week I …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: #binders, #binderwriters, #MondayBlogs, #wwwblogs, blogging, Ellen Willis, Emily Greenhouse, Facebook, Fight Club, networking, Opinion, social media, trends, Twitter, Vogue, women writers, writing
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July 13, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I currently participate in three Twitter hashtag memes. One, #MondayBlogs, is for retweeting blog posts – any sort, by anyone. …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: #ArchiveDay, #binders, #binderwriters, #hashtags, #MondayBlogs, #wwwblogs, Facebook, Fight Club, networking, social media, trends, Twitter, Vogue, women writers, writing
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July 5, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I’ve posted a couple of stories involving my daughter on this blog. It seemed time to share one about my son. …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: Aidan of Lindisfarne, family life, HIV/AIDS, parenting, RSV, storytelling
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June 29, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Word Sprout’s last story slam of the season – the Grand Slam – is this Tuesday, July 1. I hate …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: blame, Domenichino, DSM, Eve, ICD, impulsive, mental health, OCD, spoken word, story slam, storytelling, temptation, trichotillomania, Work in Process, writing process
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June 22, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
In honor of my daughter’s graduation from the University of Chicago last weekend – with a Master’s in Divinity, no …
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Category: Stories I've Told
| Tags: Carl Sagan, family life, messiness, Ms. Frizzle, parenting, science, story slam, storytelling
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June 15, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
This is the second in a series of posts about performance storytellers who are long time bloggers. It is in response …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: blogging, creative practice, storytellers who blog, storytelling, writing process
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June 8, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
As I mentioned maybe a hundred thousand times in the last four weeks, I had a story slam performance last …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: choices, Fish Out of Water, George MacDonald, Grand Slam, hell, revising, Scripture, spoken word, story slam, storytelling, The Moth
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June 1, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
In a recent post, I answered the questions assigned to me by Nillu Nasser Stelter, who nominated me for the Liebster …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: blogging, creative practice, Liebster Award, storytellers who blog, storytelling
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May 25, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Mike Hentges was one of three winners for Word Sprout’s Story Slam in May on the theme “Provoked.” He’s fairly new to the …
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Category: Interviews
| Tags: creative practice, creative process, interviews, provoked, spoken word, story slam, storytelling, writing process
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