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March 31, 2019 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Eulogy for my mother, Dorisanne Kalivoda Reed, who died quietly at home on February 20, 2019. You can read my …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: Alzheimers, death, family, family life, grief, memory, reading, relationships
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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
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July 20, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
My father, at 86, has been retired now longer than he was an elementary school principal. But he was most …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: family life, family reunions, games, marriage, memoir, parenting, relationships
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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
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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 29, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Twitter is a great place to find other writers. It can be a good place to find readers, too. And …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: audience development, Bacon Number, blogging, communities of practice, Dunbar's Number, reciprocity, relationships, small world theory, social media, social network theory, writing
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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
