Category Archives: Stories I’ve Told
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Getting Out the Vote: A Family Tale
24November 2, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Eleanor Roosevelt Votes in Hyde Park, 1936 Courtesy National Archives November 14, 1994. That’s when we got the voter registration letter. …
Continue readingCategory: Stories I've Told | Tags: Bill Clinton, conservatives, Democrats, Eleanor Roosevelt, elections, family life, Jane Russell, liberals, midterm elections, parenting, relationships, Republicans, shame, vote, voting, William McKinley
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The Unravelling
9September 7, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Told Saturday, September 6 for Story Arts of Minnesota‘s PROMPT series – “Stories based on, inspired by, or tangentially related …
Continue readingCategory: Stories I've Told | Tags: Odyssey, Penelope, Penelopiad, Story Arts of Minnesota, storytelling
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The Woman Who Had No Shadow
32July 27, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I have not yet shared a folk or fairy tale on this blog. They are deeply powerful cultural stories, and …
Continue readingCategory: Myth, folk and faery, Stories I've Told | Tags: childbirth, children, clergy, damnation, family life, fear, folk tale, forgiveness, marriage, Minnesota Fringe Festival, pregnancy, shadow, sin, spell, storytelling, wise woman, witch
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Virus
23July 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. …
Continue readingCategory: Memoir, Stories I've Told | Tags: Aidan of Lindisfarne, family life, HIV/AIDS, parenting, RSV, storytelling
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Science Project
13June 22, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
In honor of my daughter’s graduation from the University of Chicago last weekend – with a Master’s in Divinity, no …
Continue readingCategory: Stories I've Told | Tags: Carl Sagan, family life, messiness, Ms. Frizzle, parenting, science, story slam, storytelling
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Choices – Slam Cut
9June 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 …
Continue readingCategory: 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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Estranged
24May 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 …
Continue readingCategory: Memoir, Stories I've Told | Tags: divorce, family life, marriage, spoken word, story slam, storytelling
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Choices
11May 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 …
Continue readingCategory: 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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Puzzles: The Slammer’s Cut
13May 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 …
Continue readingCategory: 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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Beaten Paths
11February 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. …
Continue readingCategory: Memoir, Stories I've Told | Tags: frisky, spoken word, story slam, storytelling
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