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April 6, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I am very pleased to have an interview with Story SlamMN! winner Loren Niemi for this week’s post. Loren and …
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Category: Interviews
| Tags: creative practice, editing, interviews, revising, spoken word, story slam, storytelling, thankful
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March 23, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
In my mailbox Saturday morning was a surprise. I had asked the three winners of Word Sprout’s StorySlamMN! in February …
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Category: Interviews
| Tags: creative practice, frisky, interviews, prompts, spoken word, story slam, storytelling
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March 17, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
In a recent post, I mentioned that I wrote my doctoral dissertation on a fellow named George MacDonald. He was a …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: Alzheimers, courage, faith, family life, George MacDonald, heresy, marriage, prompts, story slam, storytelling, Work in Process
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March 13, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
For #ThrowBackThursday, I am republishing posts from my old Livejournal Blog, Ordinary Time. This one was originally published in May …
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Category: List Posts, Republished from Elsewhere
| Tags: Alzheimers, family life, list stories, marriage, spoken word, story slam
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March 9, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I have work that pays my bills. I am thankful for that. But I did not perform a story …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: blogging, burnout, creative practice, day jobs, editing, revising, story slam, storytelling, thankful, Work in Process, writing
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March 2, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
From time to time, I hope to post interviews of some of the great performers at Word Sprout’s StorySlamMN! Ani …
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Category: Interviews
| Tags: creative practice, frisky, interviews, spoken word, story slam, storytelling
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February 16, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
All of the themes for this year’s StorySlamMN! season are based on feelings. The theme for March is “thankful.” Which is …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: Alfred North Whitehead, Ebenezer Scrooge, Lynda Barry, prompts, quotations, spoken word, story slam, storytelling, thankful, Work in Process
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February 10, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
As promised in my last post, here is the story I developed for the theme “Frisky” at StorySlamMN! this month. …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: frisky, spoken word, story slam, storytelling
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January 27, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey Whiskey makes my baby, feel a little frisky Back roads are boggin’ up, my …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: frisky, images, Lynda Barry, prompts, story slam, storytelling, What It is, Work in Process, writing
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January 13, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Ok, so this isn’t exactly the start of the new year. But it is my first blog post in 2014. …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: blogging, frisky, prompts, quotations, story slam, storytelling, Work in Process, writing