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December 7, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I am sitting on a red plastic chair at the gray laminate table in our kitchen. My parents bracket the …
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Category: Stories I've Told
| Tags: childhood, Dr. Seuss, family life, food, freedom, lies, mashed potatoes, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, parenting, self trust, siblings, story slams, television shows, The Flintstones, truth
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December 1, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
We are coming up on another Story SlamMN! Tuesday at Kieran’s Irish Pub. As regular readers know from previous posts, …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: Brenda Ueland, Celebrity Apprentice, cliches, day jobs, Donald Trump, give 110%, imagination, Incredible Hulk, introverts, Lou Ferrigno, nonprofits, performance, personal best, productivity, self-care, story slam, stress, Work in Process
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November 23, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Last week I published the most popular blog post I’ve written to date. It was not a searingly honest or …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: #hashtags, blog titles, blogging, day jobs, Loft Literary Center, memes, Patrick Ross, search engine optimization, social media, thankful, Thanksgiving
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November 16, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
You have a blog. You have a Twitter account. You automatically tweet a link to each new blog post every …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: #ArchiveDay, #hashtags, #MondayBlogs, #SundayBlogShare, #wwwblogs, Alice P. Sheldon, blog traffic, blogging, Doris Lessing, Hootsuite, James Tiptree, memes, needle in a haystack, Rachel Thompson, social media, Sven Sachsalber, Twitter, Vicki Charles, women writers
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November 9, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
This post, updated from the original on my Ordinary Time blog, as well as a story I’ve told, seemed an appropriate …
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Category: History, Republished from Elsewhere, Stories I've Told
| Tags: accidents, alcoholism, Civil War, dark horse candidate, death, elections, family life, fiction, Franklin Pierce, George W. Bush, grief, inauguration, Jane Pierce, Jed Bartlet, Kansas-Nebraska Act, marriage, Nathaniel Hawthorne, New Hampshire, reality, slavery, The West Wing, user-generated content, Wikipedia
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November 2, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Eleanor Roosevelt Votes in Hyde Park, 1936 Courtesy National Archives November 14, 1994. That’s when we got the voter registration letter. …
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Category: Stories I've Told
| Tags: Bill Clinton, conservatives, Democrats, Eleanor Roosevelt, elections, family life, Jane Russell, liberals, midterm elections, parenting, relationships, Republicans, shame, vote, voting, William McKinley
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October 27, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The phrase “more fun than a barrel of monkeys” has always seemed a little ironic to me. I was ten …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: chimpanzees, Dave Garroway, Florence Henderson, idioms, J. Fred Muggs, MAD magazine, monkeys, more fun than a barrel of monkeys, more fun than a box of monkeys, OED, Oxford English Dictionary, prescription drug addiction, Today Show, Work in Process
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October 19, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
There’s a right and a wrong way to do everything, isn’t there? Why should blogging be any different? So when …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: blogging, creative practice, creativity, Darren Rowse, Flawless Consulting, Loft Literary Center, Mena Trott, Patrick Ross, Peter Block, resistance, Yoan Capote
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October 13, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I did not tell a story for the October Story Slam “In the Doghouse” – my second skip of the …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: anger, Bruce Flaherty, Carl Proper, dancing, Doghouse, dowdy, drinking, family life, local news, Love Shack, marriage, mother of the bride, parenting, relationships, small town life, weddings, Wipe Out, Work in Process
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October 6, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
After my post “Blogligations,” in which I expressed discomfort with blog awards, I scoured the internet for blog award policies, …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media, List Posts
| Tags: award free blog, award policy, awards, blogging, blogligations, chain letters, recognition, social media, writing
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