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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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April 10, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
A couple of posts ago, when discussing Plato’s notion of contentment, I brought up the Lost Continent of Atlantis. Actually …
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Category: History, Myth, folk and faery
| Tags: Atlantis, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, contentment, failure, foreclosure, Ignatius L. Donnelly, Madame Blavatsky, memoir, myth, New Age, Plato
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January 10, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The Roman god Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions. It is generally thought that January is named for …
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Category: History, Myth, folk and faery
| Tags: Ancient Rome, beginnings, calendars, January, Janus, months, myth, transitions
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September 6, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
“There is probably more folklore emanating from mortals’ response to dying and death than any other human experience.” D. L. …
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Category: List Posts, Myth, folk and faery
| Tags: #FolkloreThursday, folk tale, grief, myth, oral tradition
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August 25, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I’m currently working on a story for performance at Story Arts of Minnesota’s quarterly PROMPT series. These stories are “based …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: creative process, Lynda Barry, Margaret Atwood, myth, Odyssey, Penelope, Penelopiad, research, Story Arts of Minnesota, storytelling, weaving, What It is, women's narratives, Work in Process, writing process
