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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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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 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 23, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
My morning reading these days is Julia Cameron. In particular, the second book in her Artist’s Way series, The Vein …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: Artist's Way, creative practice, creativity, Julia Cameron, Lynda Barry, prayer, prompts, spiritual practice, storytelling, thankful, Vein of Gold, What It is, Work in Process, writing
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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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February 3, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I am most definitely not at the stage of story development I like to be at two days before a …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: editing, frisky, images, prompts, quotations, revising, storytelling, Thoreau, Work in Process, writing
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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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