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April 10, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
A couple of posts ago, when discussing Plato’s notion of contentment, I brought up the Lost Continent of Atlantis. Actually …
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Category: History, Myth, folk and faery
| Tags: Atlantis, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, contentment, failure, foreclosure, Ignatius L. Donnelly, Madame Blavatsky, memoir, myth, New Age, Plato
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March 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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Category: Essays, Commentary, Reflection, History
| Tags: Alexander, Aristotle, contentment, Cynicism, Diogenes of Sinope, philosophy, Plato
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March 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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Category: Essays, Commentary, Reflection, History
| Tags: Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Atlantis, Classical Period, contentment, Diogenes of Sinope, history of ideas, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, Xanthippe
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January 10, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The Roman god Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions. It is generally thought that January is named for …
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Category: History, Myth, folk and faery
| Tags: Ancient Rome, beginnings, calendars, January, Janus, months, myth, transitions
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September 20, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
As many of you know, I was scheduled yesterday to tell stories to children at a lantern lighting ceremony at …
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Category: History, Stories I've Told
| Tags: Brenda Ueland, Clara Ueland, death, family life, Lakewood Cemetery, marriage, women's history, women's narratives, women's suffrage
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February 2, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I was looking for a small ugly box of a house. But of course it wasn’t there. If you go …
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Category: History, Memoir
| Tags: Brian "Fox" Ellis, Catholicism, doubt, faith, Mary McCarthy, Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood, religion, Two Chairs Telling, Work in Process
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January 19, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Coretta Scott King fought for 15 years after her husband’s assassination to get Martin Luther King Day made a federal …
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Category: History, List Posts
| Tags: assassination, civil rights, Coretta Scott King, feminism, Martin Luther King Day, MLK Day, sexism
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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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