Time Dance

About the Book

In the poetry of Time Dance, Janet Chaniot explores the period and setting of her birth: Midwestern United States of America in the middle of the 20th Century. Like Thornton Wilder''s Emily of "Our Town", she is gifted with a sense of the sacred and the complex joys and challenges of family. She writes puzzle pieces of her story of loving, of learning, of teaching, of travel, and of looking to the past and future for "the world in a grain of sand". Wondering and wandering to the farthest reaches of the universe, she invites her readers to journey with her and, in sharing a part of her, to find themselves.

About the Author

Janet Chaniot was born in Michigan and educated in Michigan and California. She taught school in New York and, with her husband, in California and Lima, Peru. Aside from frequent visits to her son''s and daughter''s families, she lives with the same husband in Northern California, where she still teaches occasionally in a Buddhist girls'' school, is a volunteer mediator, and serves as a community college trustee.