Beyond Boundaries · Essays and Tidbits From Nancy Bo Flood

One Winter Up North John Owens

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 from this year.

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What is a friend?

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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painting the mural for Chinle Planting Hope

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 in Chinle, Arizona. What’s this project all about?

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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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Selecting books

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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nighttime

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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forget-me-nots

Violence in Our Country

June 7, 2022

“Freedom and justice for all ….”  Unless you are murdered at school.

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National Native American Veterans Memorial

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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boy reading Highlights

Read at Home

May 19, 2022

This weekend will celebrate a bookmobile becoming a reality. Our early literacy nonprofit, Read at Home, has worked with Chinle Planting Hope, to get this bookmobile on the road.

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Find the fire in your writing!

May 12, 2022

I hope you’ll join me, in person or via livestream, for Creative Writing I and II, offered through Colorado Mountain College.

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Walking Grandma Home

Walking Grandma Home

May 10, 2022

Looking forward to Walking Grandma Home being available to children and families, January 10, 2023, from Zonderkidz.

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poetry

A month … a year of poetry

May 5, 2022

Thank you for sharing this month of poetry. Poetry is quiet. Poetry roars. May poetry be part of many of your days this year.

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