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
A Season for Gifts
December 6, 2022
A season for gifts. Looking for just the right gift for a child? Or for a friend of any age? I want to share several of my most favorite books…
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Swish, Basketball
November 15, 2022
I am honored to have a poem included in What is a Friend?, the newest poetry anthology from Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. (Listen to me read this essay. Scroll…
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Chinle Planting Hope Mural
September 6, 2022
Adrian Thompson (Navajo) and volunteers are adding a 9 foot by 80 foot mural to the Thrift Store Wall, part of the Chinle Planting Hope and Read at Home projects…
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Why do we paint murals?
August 23, 2022
Big. Murals are big. Bright. A building becomes a canvas of story, of color, Powerful swooping swirls of yellow, orange, red.
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Read at Home: a New School Year
August 16, 2022
Approximately 450 subscriptions of Highlights' High Five children’s “learning and literacy” magazine will begin arriving at schools on a variety of tribal nations.
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Strange is our situation here on earth
June 14, 2022
Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why ...
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Violence in Our Country
June 7, 2022
“Freedom and justice for all ….” Unless you are murdered at school.
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Memorial Day 2022
May 26, 2022
This weekend the sacrifices made by our soldiers and veterans are especially real and poignant as we realize the terror and destruction of war happening in Ukraine.
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