Megan Morrison's Blog

“It’s been a long day without you, my friend, and I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again.” Charlie Puth I stared at the ring on my right index finger, five small diamonds in the shape of a star, gleaming in the sun shining through my car windows, and, not for the …

Continue reading A New Relationship

Lemon: a person or thing that proves to be defective, imperfect, or unsatisfactory; dud” I knew I shouldn’t send the email. I was on vacation, in Italy, and to her credit, my future boss had told me to disconnect. But I’d told her I wasn’t going to completely. While I was set to explore the rugged beauty …

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“…It’s her journey to find the strength within herself and become the person, the example to others, that she really wished Maya had been for her.” –Amazon.com Reader Review of And Then It Rained “I didn’t bring the chicken.” My 20-year-old cousin Natalie, or my “big sister” as I often called her given our 5-year …

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Help me, it’s like the walls are caving in Sometimes I feel like giving up But I just can’t It isn’t in my blood”  –Shawn Mendes “It’s not good, Megan…” It was all my mom’s teary voice could get out, but it was enough to put a rock in the pit of my stomach. “What …

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Find something that makes you happy and fixate on it. That is the answer to all things. It’s the answer to getting everything that you want.” -Abraham Hicks What is your why? It’s been months since I put that quote in my iPhone “Notebook” application reserved for blog post inspirations; so long, in fact, that …

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It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wings can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.” — Chaos Theory 11-2. I’m not sure why, but for some reason, this year seems to have been marked so far by a host of references back to the late nineties …

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The Universe is always speaking to us… sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, look around, to believe in something more, something else.” -Unknown I sipped my Belgian wheat beer, or “Weiss” beer as I’d been trained to say during my six days in Germany just before, and savored the malty …

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You are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.” – Anais Nin I slid my car into a makeshift parking spot — the lot was completely full for a Saturday — and glanced …

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Just when we think we figured things out, life throws us a curve ball. So, we have to improvise. We find happiness in unexpected places. We find ourselves back to the things that matter the most. The universe is funny that way. Sometimes it just has a way of making sure we wind up exactly …

Continue reading Curve Balls and Championships

Enlightenment is growing all the time. It is not something that happens once and is then complete.” -Rhich Nhat Hanh A million steps backwards — that’s what it felt like. I sat in my Chicago hotel room, picking at the room-service Caesar salad. My appetite had all but diminished the past two days, my mind …

Continue reading Summer Blog Series: Using Your Story to Propel You Forward