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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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January 4, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Because, of course, everyone is already telling you there’s no point, right? 1. Make them for the right reasons. Right …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media, List Posts
| Tags: 21 day habit, BHAG, Big Hairy Audacious Goal, Brené Brown, Facebook, family life, foreclosure, Francine Jay, habits, Miss Minimalist, perfectionism, resolutions, Shelley Wilson, The Joy of Less, Twitter
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December 15, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Adorning the tubes and wires of the Internet you will find many excellent posts on the importance of knowing your …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media, List Posts
| Tags: blog niche, blogging, crosshairs, expertise, metaphor, Patrick Ross, sell out, target audience, William Wordsworth
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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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August 17, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
This is the third and last of the three guest posts I wrote for Word Sprout’s 2014 blog residency. These …
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Category: List Posts, Republished from Elsewhere
| Tags: Allison Broeren, blogging, Button Poetry, Cole Sarar, creative practice, day jobs, Elizabeth Ellis, Katherine Glover, Loren Niemi, Mimi Nguyen, money, Ring Ring Poetry, Sam Cook, slam poetry, spoken word, Story Arts of Minnesota, storytelling, Taylor Tower, Two Chairs Telling, Ward Rubrecht, Word Sprout
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March 13, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
For #ThrowBackThursday, I am republishing posts from my old Livejournal Blog, Ordinary Time. This one was originally published in May …
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Category: List Posts, Republished from Elsewhere
| Tags: Alzheimers, family life, list stories, marriage, spoken word, story slam
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July 17, 2012 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
When I worked for the automotive industry (a career for which I prepared myself with a degree in Victorian religious …
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Category: List Posts, Performance Reviews
| Tags: Minnesota Fringe Festival, reviews
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June 6, 2012 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I. I was nine when we moved into the house on Greensview Drive. Greensview, not Green view. We lived on …
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Category: List Posts, Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: family life, Horseheads, parenting, story slam, storytelling