February 15, 2021 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
This is the eulogy I wrote for my father, Harold Robert Reed, who died on January 21, 2021. Due to …
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Category: Memoir | Tags: death, family, family life, marriage, memoir
March 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 …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told | Tags: Alzheimers, death, family, family life, grief, memory, reading, relationships
September 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 …
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Category: Essays, Commentary, Reflection, Stories I've Told | Tags: aging, death, Jeanne Calment, longevity, science
September 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 …
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Category: 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
September 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 …
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Category: Essays, Commentary, Reflection | Tags: Babyland, children, death, family friendly, grief, memory, storytelling, Work in Process
November 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 …
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Category: 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
April 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 …
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Category: Stories I've Told | Tags: accidents, cars, death, Phillip K. Dick, reality, story slam, storytelling
