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Goodbye, Facebook

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on October 5, 2021. Posted in General. 9 Comments on Goodbye, Facebook

The time has come. I’ve been struggling with this for over a year. Limiting my visits to Facebook. Only linking these blog posts to my author page then checking for comments on the posts—it seems rude to link the posts then ignore comments. But no more. I’m deleting my Facebook accounts. Both my personal account and my author...

A Different Way to Write Book Club Questions

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on September 15, 2021. Posted in Racism to Reconciliation, Writing. 8 Comments on A Different Way to Write Book Club Questions

I am nearing the end of my Beta reader feedback on In the Name of Mississippi. Thus, in complete blind faith that I will find an agent for this manuscript and, unlike my last three agents, they will sell this novel about a groundbreaking civil rights lawsuit, I’m moving on to the next step. In the Name of Mississippi is contemporary...

It’s Happening Again

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on September 11, 2021. Posted in General, Racism to Reconciliation. 6 Comments on It’s Happening Again

History happens in slow motion. We look back in time, and see events compressed into clearly demarcated eras. But in real time, history unfolds like the proverbial (and false) frog boiling in the pot: so slow you almost don’t notice. I’m not talking about frogs. I’m talking racism (again–why can’t I confine...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...