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"Why does a high powered, high profile high-heeled global consultant and cabaret singer return to a small town in Texas after fleeing for over forty years and swearing never to live there again? Everything's a Two-Step but a Waltz: The Reluctant Texan Comes Home, is the ""coming of aging"" story of a late-life collision between New York Class and Texas Sass, the idyllic life Chick Morgan was living that crashed and burned on a single day with an unimaginable double-barreled heartbreak. It's the story of figuring out, with honesty, vulnerability, and Chick's trademark humor, how she arrived at this point late in life with so many relationship misfires, and old enough to know better. Chick's stories gently traverse the universal landscapes of the heart and the meaning of family and home. ""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.) Joyce Maynard, writer and New York Times bestselling author"

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"Advance Praise for Everything's a Two-Step but a Waltz: The Reluctant Texan Comes Home This story of resilience and rebirth, of recalibration and rediscovery, is a primer for all of us who find ourselves having to create a new life sometimes as in Morgan's case, virtually from the ground up and late in life. We journey with her as she wrestles with the magnitude of these changes, and previous ones, eventually discovering a totally unexpected new world of possibility in Texas, a place she believed she never wanted to see again. Morgan is a wonderful writer. She shares her pain with courageous honesty, while keeping herself and her readers sane through humor, poetry and song lyrics, and memorable tales of growing up as a military brat with two rothers, the first daughter on her father's side in several generations. The philosophical reflections woven into the two-step of her story telling are golden nuggets for anyone who must face their own demons and grow through seismic change to arrive, astonished, in a fulfilling new life. Deirdre Taylor Coach, Speaker, Writer, and ""Diva"" Chick Morgan's story is her Dance About Life. She shares the perils of growing up and living as an adult in many diverse environments - San Antonio, Texas; Washington, D.C.; Germany; the Panama Canal Zone; New York City; Santa Barbara, California; Lubbock, Texas; and finally, the Hill Country artist community of Wimberley, Texas. Chick is a wonderful storyteller and demonstrates a keen sense of deprecating humor: ""Everything's backwards in Texas. That's why I'm looking younger every day."" Don't miss her story on firearms where she discovered the 'two step version"" of a concealed handgun purse. Chick Morgan is an accomplished creative artist, singer songwriter, performer, and writer. This is definitely a Two Step you will remember. Patrick Cox, PhD. Award-winning and nationally recognized Texas historian, author, and sixth generation Texan. At first, I thought this was a book whose readership would be largely ""the sisterhood."" I was wrong. This book is for anyone with the following attributes: A person at a crossroads. A person who has begun to sense their own mortality. A person who appreciates the community they have. A person who wishes for a community but knows not how to go about it. Anyone who is going through or has been through major loss: of a parent, a relationship, a safe place they held dear, a job, or a career. Anyone who has been betrayed or disappointed. Men and women who have gone through one phase of life and are now contemplating what might be next for them. Your story of transformation and reinvention is relevant to all thinking people as we wrap our arms around inevitable change. Jeff Connally Former CEO, CMIT Solutions Current Founder of the Appalachian Trail OGOWA Tribe (Old Guys Out Walking Around) I love your book. It dances so gracefully, so effortlessly, between comfortable soft flow and searing heartache, and back to the comfortable. The writing is so intimate it sparked my own memories. It needs to be a movie! Susan Small Former Director of Federal Affairs, West Virginia Public Service Commission"

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"Eileen S. (""Chick"") Morgan, PhD, is a writer, singer songwriter, cabaret performer, podcast host, radio host, and arts entrepreneur. After a full career working globally with large companies and non-profits in leadership and strategy development, Chick now uses those skills as an arts entrepreneur, producing such experiences as Wimberley Alive! Arts and Music Festival; creating the inaugural Wimberley Storytelling Fest; and as co-visionary, founder, and leader of Descanso Creatives International Writers Retreats. Chick has been an active musical performer in Wimberley, sharing her own songs and those of the American Songbook and Contemporary Cabaret in her musical groups The Cashmere Cowgirls and Women with Standards. Everything's a Two-Step but a Waltz: The Reluctant Texan Comes Home is Chick's third book. She previously published books on conducting business in the Soviet Union and navigating cross-cultural business ethics. She claims writing about herself is much more difficult. Chick lives outside Austin, Texas in the Hill Country town of Wimberley with her fianc�, Robert Smith, and their excellent canine companions Chase and Najee."

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