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
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
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
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
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
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
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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