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March 30, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
This week’s blog post is a work-in-progress version of the story I will tell at Story SlamMN on April 1st …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: Alzheimers, books, courage, courageous, family life, freshly pressed, puzzles, reading, storytelling, Work in Process, work in progress, writing
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March 27, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
For #ThrowBackThursday (and for #ArchiveDay on Saturday), I am republishing posts from my old Livejournal Blog, Ordinary Time. This story …
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Category: Memoir, Republished from Elsewhere
| Tags: Catholicism, family life, Horseheads, Indian Captive, Lois Lenski, Mary, Mary Jemison, Minnesota Fringe Festival, Our Lady, religion, Spirit in the House, spoken word, storytelling, Sullivan Campaign
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February 27, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
For #ThrowbackThursday, I’ve decided to occasionally repost worthy entries from my old Livejournal blog, Ordinary Time. How long this will …
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Category: Memoir, Republished from Elsewhere
| Tags: foreclosure, home, my kids
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February 23, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
My morning reading these days is Julia Cameron. In particular, the second book in her Artist’s Way series, The Vein …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: Artist's Way, creative practice, creativity, Julia Cameron, Lynda Barry, prayer, prompts, spiritual practice, storytelling, thankful, Vein of Gold, What It is, Work in Process, writing
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February 10, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
As promised in my last post, here is the story I developed for the theme “Frisky” at StorySlamMN! this month. …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: frisky, spoken word, story slam, storytelling
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September 8, 2012 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
In 1978, I graduated from St. Bonaventure University in upstate New York. And in the fall I moved out to …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
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August 26, 2012 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
“Whiny” is a qualifier no artist wants attached to her work. And yet some folk are predisposed to dislike memoir …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: creative practice, Minnesota Fringe Festival, reviews
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August 17, 2012 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The Minnesota Fringe Festival has been over for almost a week now. I sat down Monday with pen and ink …
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Category: Memoir, Performance Reviews, Stories I've Told
| Tags: creative practice, memoir, Minnesota Fringe Festival, reviews, storytelling
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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
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April 22, 2012 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The story below was performed on April 21, 2012, at Cheap Theater, Black Forest Inn, Minneapolis, MN. When Erica first …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: foreclosure, marriage, memoir, relationships, Shekhinah, tornado, Trinity Sunday, vocation
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