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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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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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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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March 13, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
For #ThrowBackThursday, I am republishing posts from my old Livejournal Blog, Ordinary Time. This one was originally published in May …
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Category: List Posts, Republished from Elsewhere
| Tags: Alzheimers, family life, list stories, marriage, spoken word, story slam
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April 22, 2012 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The story below was performed on April 21, 2012, at Cheap Theater, Black Forest Inn, Minneapolis, MN. When Erica first …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: foreclosure, marriage, memoir, relationships, Shekhinah, tornado, Trinity Sunday, vocation
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