Ginger Moran | Writing Coach, Writer, Single Mom |

Imagine YOUR Book in Your Hands!

Have you ever heard the Maya Angelou quote, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”? I know what Angelou means. I wanted to write my novel for years and it took me a long, long time to do it. But I did and now the book is sitting on my desk. In the past year, I’ve been to book festivals, spoken and read in many great places, been interviewed on radio and live, had parties, visited all sorts of cool...

Darkside of Motherhood Part 2: Mother Fail

Blame it on the time. Sometimes my mother–whom I loved and who loved me–just didn’t come through for me. She was a timid woman, a lovely flower of the South, the adored youngest daughter of a Birmingham belle who ended up single parenting four children after her husband died of, let’s face it, alcoholism. I never met my maternal grandmother, but she sounds like an amazing woman (do I hear a novel calling?) who raised...

The Dark Side of Mother’s Day: Mother Loss

As I prepare to move, I’m more calendar-conscious than usual. I can see that I’m supposed to be packing the kitchen and have all my changes of address in. Unfortunately, I haven’t even gotten my utilities hooked up for the new house. So I’m not exactly on schedule. But I CAN start planning my campaign to get a good Mother’s Day gift out of my boys. They are wonderful boys and they love giving their mom presents—but they might not...

Finances the Overwhelmed Way

I’ve just done my taxes. And my kid’s financial aid application. I’m covered up in forms, papers, receipts, and a guilty worry that I haven’t done something right. I am doing my finances the way I’ve been doing them for most of my single parent life–the overwhelmed way. I have a few solutions up my sleeve this year, though. When I was newly married, newly a mother, I discovered Quicken and thought I’d...

A Meditation on Solitude, Wolves, and Dogs

I’ve had dogs way longer than I’ve had kids–and the kids are in college. I’ve had so any that I’m on my fourth generation of them–and my dogs are (luckily) generally pretty long-lived. When the kids were little and got sick, I would tell them that we were going to the vet–meaning pediatrician. Add that to the list of mother-messups. I got my first dog when I got my first major boyfriend. Tater was a...

I love coaching!

I’m sure I should say something really profound here about my life as a writing coach, but what I really want to say is that I’m just so grateful to all the great people I’ve been working with (Kevin Hanrahan, Kristen Shaw, Patricia Tomasi, Hodan Hussein, Cam Gott are the ones I know have websites) and so grateful to the smart, generous, marketing-savvy master coach Lisa Tener. This is a picture my brother snapped of me one...