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Tracking Happiness: Chapter 4

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 30, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. 2 Comments on Tracking Happiness: Chapter 4

This is CHAPTER 4 in our series offering gossip, novel backstory, and personal confessions about TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE. We’re working our way through a novel here. If you’re just now discovering us, you can jump in now or go back to the first entry and catch up. If you jump in, I can’t promise you it won’t be...

Tracking Happiness: Chapter 3

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 26, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. No Comments on Tracking Happiness: Chapter 3

This is CHAPTER 3 in our series offering gossip, novel backstory, and personal confessions about TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE. We’re working our way through a novel here. If you’re just now discovering us, you can jump in now or go back to the first entry and catch up. If you jump in, I can’t promise you it won’t be confusing,...

TRACKING HAPPINESS: CHAPTER 2

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 24, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. No Comments on TRACKING HAPPINESS: CHAPTER 2

This is CHAPTER 2 in our series offering gossip, novel backstory, and personal confessions about TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE. We’re working our way through a novel here. If you’re just now discovering us, you can jump in or go back to the first entry and catch up. If you jump in now, I can’t promise you it won’t be confusing,...

The Hart Women Step Out

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 23, 2019. Posted in General, GRIEF, Writing. 2 Comments on The Hart Women Step Out

This Saturday April 27th at 5:00 Central time in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, my family saga novel THE HART WOMEN will make its public appearance. THE HART WOMEN was created by Marisa Whitsett Baker and me. I wrote the story (and revised it and re-wrote it and re-revised it, but that’s what “wrote” means.) Marisa created...

Have You Eaten an Alligator Gizzard?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 22, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. No Comments on Have You Eaten an Alligator Gizzard?

Today we start a series offering funny commentary on TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE. You’ll enjoy the gossip, novel backstory, and personal revelations whether you’ve read the novel or not. If you haven’t read it, this “one chapter at a time” approach might just suit you to a T. Every Monday,...

Easter 2019: How Did I Get Here?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 20, 2019. Posted in General, GOD, LOVE. 2 Comments on Easter 2019: How Did I Get Here?

My Lenten practice wasn’t random. This year, I chose to create one thing of beauty each day of Lent (Lent is 40 days). I might not have articulated it on day one, but I chose this discipline in contravention of the more traditional view of Lent as a time of deprivation, penitence, and “doing without” as a cleansing process...

Easter Saturday 2019: The Beatitudes

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 20, 2019. Posted in General, GOD. No Comments on Easter Saturday 2019: The Beatitudes

³“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.⁴Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.⁵Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.⁶Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.⁷Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.⁸Blessed...

Lenten Beauty: 4/13/19

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 15, 2019. Posted in General, GOD. No Comments on Lenten Beauty: 4/13/19

In my last Lenten Beauty posting of 2019 (Holy Week, which we have now begun, is no longer Lent), I created the beautiful thing of making it to Charlotte, NC to visit my mother, despite a medical emergency on the plane and an aborted landing, represented by this comforting light in her apartment:

Lenten Beauty: 4/11/19

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 11, 2019. Posted in GOD. No Comments on Lenten Beauty: 4/11/19

Lenten Beauty: 4/10/19

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on April 10, 2019. Posted in General, GOD. No Comments on Lenten Beauty: 4/10/19