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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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May 17, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The evening flight was a mistake. I was grateful to my brother-in-law for donating the frequent flyer miles and arranging …
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Category: Memoir
| Tags: aging, Alzheimers, caregiving, family, family life, marriage, Work in Process
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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
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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
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December 1, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
We are coming up on another Story SlamMN! Tuesday at Kieran’s Irish Pub. As regular readers know from previous posts, …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: Brenda Ueland, Celebrity Apprentice, cliches, day jobs, Donald Trump, give 110%, imagination, Incredible Hulk, introverts, Lou Ferrigno, nonprofits, performance, personal best, productivity, self-care, story slam, stress, Work in Process
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October 27, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The phrase “more fun than a barrel of monkeys” has always seemed a little ironic to me. I was ten …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: chimpanzees, Dave Garroway, Florence Henderson, idioms, J. Fred Muggs, MAD magazine, monkeys, more fun than a barrel of monkeys, more fun than a box of monkeys, OED, Oxford English Dictionary, prescription drug addiction, Today Show, Work in Process
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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
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September 15, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The StoryMN slam theme for October is “In the Dog House.” Again, we are working this season with clichés – although …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: cliché, Doghouse, family life, gender roles, idiom, J. M. Barrie, marriage, Ngram, Peter Pan, stereotype, Winsor McCay, Work in Process
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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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August 25, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I’m currently working on a story for performance at Story Arts of Minnesota’s quarterly PROMPT series. These stories are “based …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: creative process, Lynda Barry, Margaret Atwood, myth, Odyssey, Penelope, Penelopiad, research, Story Arts of Minnesota, storytelling, weaving, What It is, women's narratives, Work in Process, writing process
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