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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
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June 5, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
My mother was a big reader. I got my love of books from her. Even after she started to have …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: Alzheimers, Ann Weisgarber, Debbie Macomber, family life, marriage, reading
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February 14, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I went to church last week. I call myself a Buddhist by practice and a Christian by culture, but I …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: contentment, family, hymns, marriage, memoir, Sewanee, transfiguration, vocation, William Alexander Percy
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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
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June 1, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Last week I had a blessedly low-key birthday. The blessing is because it is the year-before-a-milestone birthday. A milestone, a …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: Alzheimers, birthdays, family, family life, marriage, voice mail
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May 25, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
When I was a child I used to call them nightmares. I had one last week. It ended up in …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: anxiety, divorce, dreams, family, John Kenn, kindergarten, marriage, nightmares, Palm Pilot, performance anxiety, scarecrows, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
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May 17, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The evening flight was a mistake. I was grateful to my brother-in-law for donating the frequent flyer miles and arranging …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: aging, Alzheimers, caregiving, family, family life, marriage, Work in Process
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April 19, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
How the Devil Married Three Sisters was published in 1885 in a book of Italian folktales. The stories were collected by …
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Category: Myth, folk and faery, Stories I've Told
| Tags: devil, folk tale, hell, heroines, humor, marriage, performance, Story Arts of Minnesota, StoryFest, storytelling
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April 12, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
As some readers will know, I was on blogcation last week, visiting my parents. There was much to be thankful …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: aging, Alzheimers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, family, family life, gender roles, health, long form, marriage, memory
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December 21, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
In the divorce, my husband got the crèche. It made sense. He was the Christian – a clergyman, which is …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: Christmas, Cloquet Forestry Center, crèche, divorce, family life, Holy Family, imagination, John Daido Loori, marriage, Mary, ornaments, Patricia Weaver Francisco, permission, religion, souvenirs, Split Rock Arts Program, stealing, writing, Zen
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