Meet the Author
Janet Gordon
JANET REBECCA GORDON was born in Gainesville, Florida and grew up in East Lansing, Michigan. The author now lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC where she has benefited from workshops on memoir at The Writer’s Center, in Bethesda, Maryland and at Politics and Prose, a community bookstore.
All the Ways You Taught Us, A Memoir of Ability,Disability and the Pursuit of Meaning is Janet’s first book. She writes in Medium about her experiences with travel in the slow lane. Janet finds a home at nearby Temple Micah, and through that synagogue, volunteers to promote wise aging and assist refugee resettlement.
Before leaving the federal government in 2018, she had a long career crafting programs to encourage bank financial services for low- and moderate-income people and communities.
All the Ways You Taught Us, A Memoir of Ability,Disability and the Pursuit of Meaning is Janet’s first book. She writes in Medium about her experiences with travel in the slow lane. Janet finds a home at nearby Temple Micah, and through that synagogue, volunteers to promote wise aging and assist refugee resettlement.
Before leaving the federal government in 2018, she had a long career crafting programs to encourage bank financial services for low- and moderate-income people and communities.