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CHICK MORGAN
Author & Artist


     A ‘book end’ Texan, Chick was born into a military
family, destined to live under a moving star. Chick Morgan
grew up mostly on the San Antonio, Texas U.S. Military
Base, Fort Sam Houston. As is the case with most military
families, they moved many times throughout her father’s
military career to places including Washington, D.C.,
Virginia, Panama, and Germany, but always returning to
Texas. Chick left Texas after college, thinking it was for good.
 
      Chick’s adult life was spent traveling the world, and living and working in New York, Connecticut and New Hampshire, first as a Bank executive, then leading international educational travel and cultural exchange programs, next directing her own international organizational strategy company, and most recently, as an acclaimed singer-songwriter and author. All of this punctuated with love, joy, loss, transformation, and grit.
 
     If there was ever someone capable of sharing a few things about adapting to the impact of life’s changing currents, it’s author Chick Morgan. In her new memoir, Everything’s a Two Step but a Waltz: The Reluctant Texan Comes Home, she does just that. In this captivating new book, Chick takes you on her tumultuous life’s journey that is transformed by a double-barreled heartbreak that opened the way for everything that follows, and that’s the real story.   Today Chick lives outside Austin in the Texas Hill Country town of Wimberley with her fiancé, Robert Smith, and their much-loved canine companions Chase and Najee. Since returning to Texas, Chick has hosted her own radio show on KWVH, co-created the podcast Passports and Poets, and co-founded Descanso Creatives International Writers Retreats, and Wimberley Area Writers. She has also served on the board of the Wimberley Valley Arts and Cultural Alliance, where she chaired the Wimberley Alive! Arts and Music Festivals and launched the first ever Wimberley Storytelling Fest. She is already at work on her next book and continues to write songs and perform Cabaret.  
     
Among Chick’s other works are two published business books: Cutting the Red Tape: How Western Companies Can Profit in the New Russia. By Tourevski, M. and Morgan, E. (New York: The Free Press/Simon and Schuster. 1991). And Navigating Cross Cultural Ethics: What Global Managers Do Right to Keep from Going Wrong.
By Eileen Morgan. (Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann/Reed-Elsevier/Routledge. 1996).   

Chick Morgan has given us one of the best re-invention stories I know!

 

"Texas native heads north to The Big City and carves out a career as a cabaret singer/Wall Street dynamo. Then, in her sixties, to the surprise of nobody more than herself, she finds herself back in Texas and sinks down roots again – falls in love, builds a new career, and a big, full life in the Hill Country, complete with a closet full of cowboy boots and days filled with friendship. This brave, honest, funny and true story made me want to pack my bags and check out Wimberley, Texas (so I did.)"

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~ Joyce Maynard, New York Times bestselling author; internationally renowned Pie Baker.

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