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November 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. …
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Category: 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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October 13, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I did not tell a story for the October Story Slam “In the Doghouse” – my second skip of the …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: anger, Bruce Flaherty, Carl Proper, dancing, Doghouse, dowdy, drinking, family life, local news, Love Shack, marriage, mother of the bride, parenting, relationships, small town life, weddings, Wipe Out, Work in Process
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September 15, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The StoryMN slam theme for October is “In the Dog House.” Again, we are working this season with clichés – although …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: cliché, Doghouse, family life, gender roles, idiom, J. M. Barrie, marriage, Ngram, Peter Pan, stereotype, Winsor McCay, Work in Process
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August 3, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
This month I will be republishing the three guest posts I wrote for Word Sprout’s 2014 blog residency. These included …
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Category: Republished from Elsewhere
| Tags: Alzheimers, creative practice, divorce, family life, marriage, storytelling, Word Sprout, writing, writing process
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July 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 …
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Category: 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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July 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. …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: Aidan of Lindisfarne, family life, HIV/AIDS, parenting, RSV, storytelling
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June 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 …
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Category: Stories I've Told
| Tags: Carl Sagan, family life, messiness, Ms. Frizzle, parenting, science, story slam, storytelling
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May 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 …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: divorce, family life, marriage, spoken word, story slam, storytelling
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May 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 …
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Category: 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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March 30, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
This week’s blog post is a work-in-progress version of the story I will tell at Story SlamMN on April 1st …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: Alzheimers, books, courage, courageous, family life, freshly pressed, puzzles, reading, storytelling, Work in Process, work in progress, writing
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