Jan Morgan

Jan Morgan is a retired public school administrator living in Bedford, Texas with her husband and Scottish terriers, Oscar Clyde and Molly McGee. She enjoyed over thirty years of service working as a teacher, a campus administrator, and finally a central office administrator. In addition she had the privilege of working as an adjunct professor with both graduate and undergraduate students at Texas A&M University, the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of North Texas, and Concordia University Texas.

In 2012 she and her husband, Randy, founded BridgesWork, a 501(c)(3) entity that epitomizes their lasting commitment to children who have grown up in a marginalized environment. BridgesWork continues to thrive and grow in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area today, and the Morgans persist in their dream to ensure that, despite obstacles of poverty or other family challenges, the children whose lives are touched by BridgesWork know they are valued, loved, and can succeed in today's world.

"Dr. Jan", as many of the kids call her, attended the College of Charleston, Clemson University, the Ohio State University, and the University of North Texas. She loves the South Carolina coast, far west Texas, her wonderfully supportive husband and family, and anything “scottie”.

Jan’s second book, Blades of Grass in the Desert, is a sequel to Sweet Grass Memories and was released July 7, 2022. Its synopsis:

Several years have passed since the old plantation style mansion at 1324 Blessing Path was lovingly restored, but the mysterious old place is apparently still calling the shots. Years ago, when it was discovered that the house had supernatural tendencies, two retired ladies set out on a quest to determine its history. Tracing its lineage from central Texas to Charleston, South Carolina they uncovered a love story worthy of comparison to Gone with the Wind and eventually realized that there were “plans” for the structure that had been set in place as far back as 1950.

This time, however, events lead one of the ladies not to the east coast but to the deserts of west Texas where she befriends a beautiful, young woman from Guatemala. Wondering whether their meeting was serendipitous Jamie returns to Sweet Grass Memories, the name given the House, and shares a hand-written letter with Ms. G that the young woman gave her their last time together. The letter, together with a photograph of a lone boat on the shore of the Rio Grande River, lead the two of them, together with Reid, Tracy, and the kids of the House, on another adventure, one that rivals any television docudrama.

The story winds its way from the dry, blowing sand of west Texas, into Mexico, and finally returns to the estuaries and humidity of Charleston, South Carolina, and its indomitable Gullah people. People whose ancestors endured like blades of grass pushing through concrete; endured and sang songs about faith and hope as they journeyed toward freedom.

Just like the Gullah peoples during the slave era, today many others endure. Walking or riding northward through deserts they journey toward a different kind of freedom; freedom from devastating drought and hunger, and freedom to live again in places that are absent the perils associated with trying to survive where malevolence thrives.