Morgan Longford
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Dexter v Texas
I already know today’s piece is going to be very different than my usual stuff, because it is what I’m thinking about at the moment. I have so many good, quality subjects to write about but setting those aside for when I can be thoughtful about them and give them a little more time than I have right now. Either way, I think this is something that not enough people talk about so let’s dive in: executioners are the same as serial killers, aside from the fact that they are legally sanctioned. They are the legally sanctioned Dexters. Full stop.
By Morgan Longford3 months ago in Criminal
A miracle, a sprout, and a badass walk into a bar...
One of my favorite things I ever read was this: Don’t quit five minutes before the miracle happens. I couldn’t tell you for the life of me when or where I read that- I maybe I even heard it somewhere- but I have it written in my office, and I come back to it over and over again. It might even be the most inspirational piece of advice I’ve ever received from the universe because any time I get impatient, anxious, or start losing steam, I can come back to that. And right now, I need that.
By Morgan Longford3 months ago in Humans
I'm taking the day off...
I am taking the day off from writing today, but not from posting. I have a few ideas that I want to get out of my head and into words, but today isn’t that day. So enjoy this story I wrote a while back- I wrote it for a contest, the prompt was to write about a piece of chocolate cake, and this is the second fictional piece I ever wrote. I’ve been toying with taking bits and pieces of the character and putting her into another story, maybe, maybe not, but either way, happy reading, and thank you for letting me have a cheat day.
By Morgan Longford3 months ago in Fiction
Atomic Habits, sort of.
Near the end of last year, I decided to spend more time writing. I committed to writing one article a week, which seemed like a solid start since I have never dedicated any time to writing- which is weird because all I ever do in my head is… fake write. I walk through life crafting sentences, paragraphs, book titles, fictional conversations, without ever putting them down in writing. I have scrap papers laying around with little tidbits that I would like to include in a book or poem someday, but until last year, I never spent time making time to write. But I figured, if I wanted to be a writer, and wanted to write books, and to make a living doing it, I should probably actually do the thing. So, one article a week seemed like a good starting point.
By Morgan Longford3 months ago in Chapters
A few things I forgot to mention.
On Monday, I published a piece about ballet, and being a ballerina. As usual, I took a few detours I wasn’t expecting and ended up giving more of a pep talk than I anticipated. So just another day, as far as I’m concerned. But there are two things that I should have elaborated on, and they’ve been nagging me ever since I hit “publish,” but by that time I felt like the piece was long enough, and I also didn’t want to go in and make any edits. I thought maybe the thoughts would go away, and you wouldn’t know the difference anyway. But they didn’t, so here you go. Today will be brief. Maybe. I think.
By Morgan Longford3 months ago in Humans
Be the ballerina.
I became a ballerina when I was 29 years old. So, let’s just get that whole, “you’re never too old to try new things” inspirational speech out of the way right now. Because honestly, it’s more or less true. It is never too late to try new things, to learn new things, to reinvent yourself- none of it. The only reason people don’t try new things is fear. And fuck fear. It’s stupid. Fear holds us back from everything magical that our lives could be. It doesn’t even have to be anything monumental to shift your entire life, or at least outlook. Maybe you just try a new food, lets say some Greek dish, and you love it so much that you end up flying to Greece to try that same food in a restaurant that serves it authentically and with local ingredients, and while you’re there you buy a pair of pants and when you come home, you are wearing them to the grocery store and someone stops you to tell you how gorgeous you are and next thing you know you are cast in a movie and now you are a star. All because you ate a dolma, I don’t know.
By Morgan Longford3 months ago in Humans
Roller Skates:
I got my first pair of roller skates in roughly 2016. Not my first-first pair, I got those as a kid. But my first new pair as an adult, and I did it long before the pandemic came around and brought a resurgence of roller skating with it. I know, I know, this sounds very much like a I-knew-about-it-before-it-was-cool thing, and maybe it is a little bit. I am a 90’s kid, born in 1980, with a hint of gen-x and a penchant for uncool things so OK, I will give it to you. I do want you to know I wanted to roller skate before roller skating was cool. Like listening to Dashboard Confessional.
By Morgan Longford4 months ago in Humans
Witches and Science and Rocks, Oh My
I’ve been thinking about this since Thursday. It was one of those, “crap, I posted my article, but I feel like this should have been a part of it, an expansion of it, the thing that really drives it home” moments. It came just moments after publishing, and after spending several hours writing that article but I didn’t want to pull it, my brain was tired, and it was just going to have to be good enough. Ironically enough, it was apparently perfect as it was because it was chosen as a top story. So, there is certainly a lesson in there somewhere.
By Morgan Longford4 months ago in Humans
- Top Story - January 2024
Multipotentiality and All That JazzTop Story - January 2024
I learned a new word this week: MULTIPOTENTIALITY. Honestly, I don’t even know if it is a real word, but as I sit here and type this into a word document and it isn’t underlined in red, I am inclined to think it is. It was just a comment someone left on a social media post, and probably meant to be relatively empowering yet casual, but let me tell you- that word hit me with the weight of a thousand stars. Multipotentiality.
By Morgan Longford4 months ago in Humans