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My Precocious Cross
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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
C’est le Premier Pas Qui Coûte: Mary McCarthy and Me
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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
Choices
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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
Corage. God Mend Al.
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March 17, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

In a recent post, I mentioned that I wrote my doctoral dissertation on a fellow named George MacDonald. He was a …
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Category: Uncategorized | Tags: Alzheimers, courage, faith, family life, George MacDonald, heresy, marriage, prompts, story slam, storytelling, Work in Process

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