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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
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January 29, 2017 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Blogging is a bad platform for the slow and reflective. Which is how I tend to approach my writing, particularly those …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: blogging, caregiving, family life, resisting Trump
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December 11, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I am on the phone with my parents, who live one thousand and sixty-seven miles away in upstate New York. …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: family life, lies, memoir, parenting, relationships
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November 27, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
If you’re a regular reader of my currently irregular posts, you know my father has not been well this year. …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: aging, Alzheimers, caregiving, family life
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October 9, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I. Ariadne gave Theseus a sword and a ball of thread. The sword he could appreciate. The thread she had …
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Category: Memoir, Myth, folk and faery, Stories I've Told
| Tags: Alzheimers, caregiving, family life, marriage, myth, perseverance
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August 21, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
“Did I plug a cord into the charger for water?” my father asked. It was the weekend before Mother’s Day. …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: Alzheimers, caregiving, family life, marriage, memoir
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June 26, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
My father took an early retirement, at 55. My mother, four years younger, taught her third grade class for nine …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: Alzheimers, birthdays, family, family life, marriage, memoir
