Ike Morgan is a veteran mostly-behind-the-scenes journalist (think line editor, copy editor, page designer, mobile/web producer, social-media specialist, podcast host). He is a Gulf Coast native who graduated from high school in Panama City, Fla. He has an economics degree from Florida State University. He is married (to Leigh Morgan, who is probably best known as a statewide Alabama weather reporter) and has two daughters. He currently lives in Birmingham, Ala.
I once owned ikemorgan.com. And then, suddenly, I didn't. Probably because I stopped checking the email account that I opened in 1941 and did not see the "YOU MUST RENEW YOUR ACCOUNT YESTERDAY" notices. The domain seller I bought it from eventually gave up on hoping that I would buy it back at a higher rate (and it no longer needed my money to forward to Danica Patrick) so it let ikemorgan.com go. And now I've re-purchased it. Also, I've decided to use the URL to crank up this blog. My staff -- my agent, my executive producer, my crew chief and my wife's pool boy -- will have it cooking by Monday week. And then I'll have a URL and a blog. This first post is mostly so I can see what a post looks like on my URL and blog. Two goals here: (1) To stop myself from losing, deleting or discarding the more self-indulgent crap that I write; and (2) to make enough money -- a half penny at a time -- to buy a pool.