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
December 6, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I had been a clergy wife for four years, and a mother for three. My son had just celebrated his …
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Category: Memoir | Tags: Bible, clergy, family life, money, parenting, tithing
February 15, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The theme for WordSprout’s February’s Story Slam – which I did not perform at – was “Spill the Beans.” This …
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Category: Stories I've Told | Tags: adoption, dating, family, family life, high school, mixed race children, music, parenting, prejudice, racism, relationships, small towns
December 7, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I am sitting on a red plastic chair at the gray laminate table in our kitchen. My parents bracket the …
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Category: Stories I've Told | Tags: childhood, Dr. Seuss, family life, food, freedom, lies, mashed potatoes, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, parenting, self trust, siblings, story slams, television shows, The Flintstones, truth
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
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
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
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
June 6, 2012 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I. I was nine when we moved into the house on Greensview Drive. Greensview, not Green view. We lived on …
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Category: List Posts, Memoir, Stories I've Told | Tags: family life, Horseheads, parenting, story slam, storytelling
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