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December 4, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Once again, I am preparing for a theme-based storytelling event. That theme is “lies.” I often use quotations to stimulate thought …
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Category: Quotations
| Tags: authors, lies, quotations, storytelling, writers
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October 24, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I spent the weekend before last at NerdCon: Stories. I went with my friend Ann Reay. Both of us attended …
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Category: Essays, Commentary, Reflection
| Tags: Hank Green, John Scalzi, NerdCon, storytelling
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January 3, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
My roommate and I had a quiet New Year’s Eve. Seriously. We watched a couple of episodes of the Twilight …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media, Essays, Commentary, Reflection
| Tags: blogging, goals, resolutions, storytelling, time management
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December 13, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The #FolkloreThursday Twitter feed has been full the last few weeks of all things Krampus. This makes sense, given that …
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Category: Myth, folk and faery
| Tags: #FolkloreThursday, Christmas, folklore, Krampus, storytelling
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October 19, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
If you were paying attention (and it’s not a judgment upon you if you weren’t), you might have noticed that …
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Category: Essays, Commentary, Reflection
| Tags: caretaking, dementia, Hank Green, John Green, John Scalzi, M. T. Anderson, NerdCon, reading, stories, storytelling
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September 14, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Yesterday I walked in the City of the Dead. That’s how I always feel when I’m in a cemetery; like …
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Category: Essays, Commentary, Reflection
| Tags: Babyland, children, death, family friendly, grief, memory, storytelling, Work in Process
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April 19, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
How the Devil Married Three Sisters was published in 1885 in a book of Italian folktales. The stories were collected by …
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Category: Myth, folk and faery, Stories I've Told
| Tags: devil, folk tale, hell, heroines, humor, marriage, performance, Story Arts of Minnesota, StoryFest, storytelling
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January 25, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
If you read this blog – and I hope you do – you know I’ve committed to 20 hours of …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: blogging, Brian "Fox" Ellis, Charles Darwin, creative practice, essay, Loft Literary Center, Loren Niemi, lyric essay, Malcolm Gladwell, Patrick Ross, resolutions, storytelling, Two Chairs Telling
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September 7, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Told Saturday, September 6 for Story Arts of Minnesota‘s PROMPT series – “Stories based on, inspired by, or tangentially related …
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Category: Stories I've Told
| Tags: Odyssey, Penelope, Penelopiad, Story Arts of Minnesota, storytelling
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September 1, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Deadlines have a way of piling up on a person. The result can be cacophanous. As I mentioned last week, …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: carpe diem, cliché, creative process, Dead Poets Society, Drake, Ervin McKinness, Eva Moreda, Mae West, Margaret Atwood, Penelope, Penelopiad, Robin Williams, stereotype, story slam, storytelling, The Lonely Island, topoi, Work in Process, YOLO
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