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April 26, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
When I write something good and powerful and true that touches people, and they tell me so, it is a …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media, Memoir
| Tags: Alzheimers, awards, blog traffic, blogging, family, freshly pressed, writing
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April 12, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
As some readers will know, I was on blogcation last week, visiting my parents. There was much to be thankful …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: aging, Alzheimers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, family, family life, gender roles, health, long form, marriage, memory
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February 8, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I have an early memory as a child of the priest coming to visit our house. A young, handsome priest …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: Catholicism, childhood, Christianity, cross, crucifix, faith, family life, Holy Family, memory, religion, Work in Process
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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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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 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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May 24, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The kiss was amazing. But I knew I was falling in love because when I asked him if he had …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: divorce, family life, marriage, spoken word, story slam, storytelling
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May 18, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Last week I was asked, under some unusual circumstances, to perform a version of the story below at a private …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: academia, choices, computers, dissertation, doubt, faith, George MacDonald, MLA, storytelling, University of Minnesota, Victorians, Wheaton College, word processing, writing process
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May 4, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
On March 30, I posted a version of a story that was a work-in-progress for the monthly Word Sprout Story Slam. The …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: Alzheimers, books, courage, courageous, editing, family life, puzzles, reading, revising, story slams, storytelling, writing, writing process
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April 21, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
When Nillu Nasser Stelter nominated me for the Liebster Award a month ago, I had only a vague idea what it …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media, Memoir
| Tags: #MondayBlogs, blogging, Cheri Register, creative practice, Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, Liebster Award, Loft Literary Center, Lorraine Reguly, Nillu Nasser Stelter, Rachel Thompson, storytelling, writing, YouTube
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