Dance of the Chickens

About the Book

Everybody has a story. And every story has a lesson. He who tells his tale, enriches his very self, for sharing is reliving. This book is filled with true adventures and mishaps experienced by sixty people from many walks of life. Told in first person using dialogue, each event comes alive with underlying lessons mixing humor, love and drama. The vignettes have universal appeal. Approximate length is 55,750 words.

This book targets older children and adults.

About the Author

Ben Romero was born and raised in Northern New Mexico, the fifth of seven children in an Hispanic, Catholic household. Romero is a part-time Adult Education teacher in as ESL program (English as a Second Language), and uses some of his writings as material for teaching.

He has spent the past twenty-nine years working for the US Postal Service and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Management with a minor in Spanish from Fresno Pacific University in 1995.

Romero is active in the Catholic Church, occasionally serving as CCD Instructor, and as a member of Holy Spirit Parish Men's Club. He is also a member of the Central California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Romero is married to Evelyn Romero, his wife of thirty-three years. They have five children and four grandchildren.

Dance of the Chickens is Ben's third book. His first two books, Chicken Beaks: Growing up Hispanic and Chicken Beaks Revisited: An Hispanic Adolescence, are part of a three-book series. The third book in that series will be available in early 2005.