Covering the Kansas City Chiefs through ArrowheadOne has been an incredible journey for me. The excellent writer’s group and caring blogging community have grown beyond what I thought AO ever could be. I am grateful to everyone who has visited and look forward to more growth in the coming years.
For this growth to happen, ArrowheadOne must also evolve. In AO’s first ten-months, eleven writers have helped to keep AO going strong. We have purposefully kept advertising off of the site. However, that means every writer and administrator associated with the site has done so on an in-kind basis. IOW… for free. Our commitment is to continue to keep the site clean and if there is to be any advertising it will be minimal.
In the meantime, each AO writer who writes continuously for a period of 6 months or longer will have the choice of offering a Patreon link for fans of their work who can donate to them. To this point, Frank Leggio, Ransom Hawthorne, and moi, qualify.
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About Ladner Morse
Although untrue, it seems like I’ve always been a writer. My mother majored in Journalism and had some of her works published. Those were very different times, the days before the Internet. I began writing by playing the guitar in the 1960s. I began my magical musical mystery tour because I was laid up as the result of an ACL sports injury, and resulting surgery, in 8th grade. I had the football in my hand and as I cut one way, my knee cut the other. Stepping in a hole in the turf didn’t help any. That was the beginning of the end. After I stepped in that hole and then re-inuring my knee in the long jump, high jump, pole vault, baseball, and basketball… ACL surgery was the only option for an energetic kid who couldn’t sit still for five minutes. So, I had to sit down, with a cast on my leg, and I gave up sports for the better part of two years. In 10th grade, I just had to give football another try and the second day of practice… well, you know what happened next. I’ll spare you the gory details. So, I had another surgery, this time to remove the cartilage in my left knee and so my career as an athlete was over.
In the meantime, I picked up my older brother Barry’s guitar and began writing songs. Actually, I have Barry to credit for the guitar playing. He once said to me, “See that guitar” pointing to the corner of the room where his guitar usually leaned. I said “Yes,” and he replied in his stern big brother voice, “Don’t ever touch it.” And that’s how I learned to play the guitar.
700 plus songs and poems later, I had a writing skill I never even really thought about until I began to write essay papers for college where I was able to finagle myself an invitation to the Kappa Delta Pi, an Honor Society in Education.
When I was just a lad, growing up outside of Los Angeles, I religiously read the morning sports section of the LA Times on a daily basis and looked forward to the columns by Mr. Jim Murray. Jim Murray had a way of making you feel like you were right there with him… which was an amazing journey because he was friends with the major athletes of that time and often went golfing or out to dinner with them. His, fly-on-wall insights were based on actually being in the same room with those unforgettable characters. However, his writing was more than that. His opinion was gospel to me. Yet, he knew how to deliver his view without the scathing or ill-mannered attacks that are commonplace in today’s media. So, Jim Murray has always been a huge influence.
Although I have battled my whole life with dyslexia, it is the writing process that puts me in a state of enchantment. Getting to write about my favorite team, the Kansas City Chiefs, is all the pay I really need. I hope the writers here at ArrowheadOne continue to provide quality writing about our favorite team. We have never written for the money but the love of writing alone won’t pay the bills.
Thanks for your patronage,
Laddie Morse,
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