Category Archives: Essays, Commentary, Reflection
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Dear Hank: Try again, Fail better. An Elder’s Reflection on NerdCon Stories 2016
12October 24, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I spent the weekend before last at NerdCon: Stories. I went with my friend Ann Reay. Both of us attended …
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Contentment: You’re Doing It Wrong
16March 20, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Diogenes the Cynic (412 BCE – 323 BCE) was a piece of work. You have to think the man knew …
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3 Badass Greek Philosophers on What Contentment Means
14March 13, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I was complaining last week about the shallow approach to soul-building often found on the self-help shelves. Complaining is not …
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13 Synonyms for Contentment That Don’t Mean the Same Thing at All
22February 7, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Last week we went to the dictionary – more precisely, to Google’s summary of all things dictionary-ish – to get …
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Searching for Contentment
23January 31, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
These days you don’t need a dictionary to get a definition for contentment. You just need a search engine. A …
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Enough Already: Exploring the Art of Contentment
34January 17, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Reading and writing are the only spiritual disciplines I maintain with any consistency. I suppose that for some this is …
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Less is More: The Resolution We Both Can Keep
33January 3, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
My roommate and I had a quiet New Year’s Eve. Seriously. We watched a couple of episodes of the Twilight …
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Is the Book of Job a Folktale?
16November 29, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Is the Book of Job a folktale? Well, some of it is, yes. At least that is what I discovered …
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