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My Precocious Cross
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February 8, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

I have an early memory as a child of the priest coming to visit our house. A young, handsome priest …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told | Tags: Catholicism, childhood, Christianity, cross, crucifix, faith, family life, Holy Family, memory, religion, Work in Process
C’est le Premier Pas Qui Coûte: Mary McCarthy and Me
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February 2, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

I was looking for a small ugly box of a house. But of course it wasn’t there. If you go …
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Category: History, Memoir | Tags: Brian "Fox" Ellis, Catholicism, doubt, faith, Mary McCarthy, Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood, religion, Two Chairs Telling, Work in Process
Zen and the Art of Stealing a Crèche
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December 21, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

In the divorce, my husband got the crèche. It made sense. He was the Christian – a clergyman, which is …
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Category: Memoir | Tags: Christmas, Cloquet Forestry Center, crèche, divorce, family life, Holy Family, imagination, John Daido Loori, marriage, Mary, ornaments, Patricia Weaver Francisco, permission, religion, souvenirs, Split Rock Arts Program, stealing, writing, Zen
Two Falling Voices: Mary Jemison and Me
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March 27, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

For #ThrowBackThursday (and for #ArchiveDay on Saturday), I am republishing posts from my old Livejournal Blog, Ordinary Time. This story …
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Category: Memoir, Republished from Elsewhere | Tags: Catholicism, family life, Horseheads, Indian Captive, Lois Lenski, Mary, Mary Jemison, Minnesota Fringe Festival, Our Lady, religion, Spirit in the House, spoken word, storytelling, Sullivan Campaign

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