Tag Archives: death
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And May Her Memory Be a Blessing: Alzheimer’s Final Goodbye
17March 31, 2019 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Eulogy for my mother, Dorisanne Kalivoda Reed, who died quietly at home on February 20, 2019. You can read my …
Continue readingCategory: Memoir, Stories I've Told | Tags: Alzheimers, death, family, family life, grief, memory, reading, relationships
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When Aging Stops: Fruit Flies, Little Old Ladies and the Late-Life Mortality Plateau
15September 18, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Hang around a few evolutionary biologists sometime. I did last week on the Tubes and Wires. You will come across …
Continue readingCategory: Essays, Commentary, Reflection, Stories I've Told | Tags: aging, death, Jeanne Calment, longevity, science
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Buried Women’s History: Lighting the Lantern for Clara Ueland
23September 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 …
Continue readingCategory: 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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Kid Brain in Babyland
13September 14, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Yesterday I walked in the City of the Dead. That’s how I always feel when I’m in a cemetery; like …
Continue readingCategory: Essays, Commentary, Reflection | Tags: Babyland, children, death, family friendly, grief, memory, storytelling, Work in Process
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The Two Presidents from New Hampshire
14November 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 …
Continue readingCategory: 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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Graveyard Shift
16April 3, 2013 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
You can move into some situations faster than you can move out of them. In February my car hit a …
Continue readingCategory: Stories I've Told | Tags: accidents, cars, death, Phillip K. Dick, reality, story slam, storytelling
