Writer Ellen Morris Prewitt Blog

Life’s Coming at Us Fast

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on September 8, 2021. Posted in General, LOVE. 10 Comments on Life’s Coming at Us Fast

So I’ll be quick: Our beloved pup Evangeline went under the knife today. With her crooked smile With no warning, her right hind hip popped from the socket. (Both Tom and I had to apologize for this trait that seems to run in the family.) The Queen We take her EVERYWHERE With Big Chief Bo Dollis The emergency vet tried...

Ida Know, Either

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on September 3, 2021. Posted in General. 4 Comments on Ida Know, Either

We are fine. Our beach house in Waveland, Mississippi, which was Hurricane Katrina’s Ground Zero 16 years ago, is fine. The house in New Orleans is fine (how many houses do I have? Two). The kids’ house in New Orleans had minor damage, but it is essentially fine. Our NOLA home in happier times The City of New Orleans is hurting....

Ida Know, but We Gotta Go

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 28, 2021. Posted in GOD, GRIEF. 16 Comments on Ida Know, but We Gotta Go

It is Saturday. We’re packing up to drive to my sister’s house in Jackson before Hurricane Ida hits our part of the world. “Ride it out,” they call it when you evacuate to another area. But you fly from the storm, grabbing your file of necessary papers (oh, right: add COVID vaccination cards) and hurriedly deciding what...

Evil Doers in the Family

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 22, 2021. Posted in General, Racism to Reconciliation. 6 Comments on Evil Doers in the Family

So we prayed Psalm 34:15-22 at church this morning, the second verse of which is: “the face of the Lord is against those who do evil,*to root out the remembrance of them from the earth.”Psalm 34:16 I read that and into my brain popped the thought, That’s the statue removal. Confederate statues, my brain meant. *** As...

A Fork with its Hair on Fire

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 11, 2021. Posted in General. 2 Comments on A Fork with its Hair on Fire

The Fork with its hair on fire with faithful companion Sometimes, when I’ve been overwhelmed with COVID numbers in states where those I love live or I’ve been spending too much time researching my difficult family history, the absurd is what I need

What’s Manipulating You?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 10, 2021. Posted in General. 8 Comments on What’s Manipulating You?

Let’s break it down. I’ll go first. Here’s my list of how (un)successful I am at preventing a hate-based reaction to the unmasking/unvaccinated assisting the spread of COVID-19. I arranged it in descending order, from most successful to least: those increasing the chance a new variant will elude my vaccinethose increasing the...

What’s Your Invisible Wind?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 5, 2021. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 6 Comments on What’s Your Invisible Wind?

White privilege is like riding the bike down the beach in Waveland. There’s an incline as the land rises toward Bay St. Louis, but it’s a basically easy ride. You pedal along. The Gulf is to your right, the lovely houses to your left. The temperature is okay, not beating down hot. You can feel it in your thighs, the exertion, but it’s...

Can America be the Land of the Brave?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 6, 2021. Posted in Featured, General, GOD, Racism to Reconciliation. 8 Comments on Can America be the Land of the Brave?

Y’all know this story, right? About how King David of Israel saw a woman bathing and asked who she was. David’s advisors told him she was the wife of Uriah, one of David’s soldiers. David’s messengers “brought Bathsheba to him.” They had sex. David then arranged for her husband Uriah to be killed in battle...

Don’t Die Needlessly

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 1, 2021. Posted in GRIEF. 6 Comments on Don’t Die Needlessly

During the years I volunteered at the Door of Hope, I knew several guests who had been kicked out of the house after being diagnosed with AIDS. All too often the family members did this—kicked out their loved ones—because their pastor told them the loved one had committed a sin. They were sinful. Someone to be shamed. Disowned. Kicked out. The...

A Random Sunday

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 27, 2021. Posted in General, GOD. No Comments on A Random Sunday

Today at the Free Church of the Annunciation, we wrapped up the month of June doing We R Righting Group where, during the hour before church, we wrote about Re-Orienting Our New Selves after the discombobulating last eighteen months. We had fun. Fun, I say, if that’s what you think of the Holy Spirit appearing while almost-strangers share...