Story is a powerful way to build compassion and bridge understanding between cultures. Story has the power to heal as well as teach.
Books by Nancy Bo Flood
Beyond Boundaries · Essays and tidbits from Nancy Bo Flood
Da Vinci’s Respect for Water
May 3, 2016
“…the body of the earth [h]as its ocean, which also rises and falls every six hours with the breathing of the worlds.” —from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
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Make your own soap
April 26, 2016
In No-Name Baby, Sophie’s family depends on lye soap they make themselves. What was it like to create such a staple before store-sold soap became so common?
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Bill Pickett, steer wrestling pioneer
April 21, 2016
In my book Cowboy Up! Ride the Navajo Rodeo, I salute Bill Pickett, the fearless cowboy of Cherokee and African American descent.
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Tucson Festival of Books
April 19, 2016
I had a lovely experience again this year at the Tucson Festival of Books. So well organized and so many people to talk with about BOOKS!
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Remembering Rose A. Tahe
April 14, 2016
I first met Rose when she was a student in a graduate level children’s literature class I was teaching for Northern Arizona University on the Navajo Nation. I wondered why…
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Celebrating PLA 2016
April 12, 2016
I had a wonderful time visiting with librarians, the vitality of the book world, and presenting about poetry with Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell. And then there were the other…
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Welcome to the wide world of cowboy boots
April 5, 2016
Rodeo entrants choose steel-toed cowboy boots for maximum protection against large-hoofed animals. That’s just the start of the many differences in cowboy boots. Different boots are made for different cowboy…
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Hawaii knows rodeo!
March 31, 2016
Ever since writing Cowboy Up! Ride the Navajo Rodeo, I’ve been amazed at discovering so many rodeo hotspots I had never imagined. The 24th Panaewa Stampede Rodeo graced Hawaii’s Big…
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