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Tracking Happiness: Chapter 15

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 27, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. No Comments on Tracking Happiness: Chapter 15

This is CHAPTER 15 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 now, I can’t promise you it won’t...

Tracking Happiness: Chapter 14

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 25, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. No Comments on Tracking Happiness: Chapter 14

This is CHAPTER 14 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 now, I can’t promise you it won’t...

Tracking Happiness: Chapter 13

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 23, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. 2 Comments on Tracking Happiness: Chapter 13

This is CHAPTER 13 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 now, I can’t promise you it won’t...

Memphis: Cradle of Creativity

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 22, 2019. Posted in General, LOVE. 4 Comments on Memphis: Cradle of Creativity

The Brooks Museum is constructing a new building on the river. The lead architects want a one word description of Memphis to help them envision what this building will look like. Let me take the opportunity to (again) promote my (long-running but largely-ignored) campaign to have Memphis adopt as its new tag: Memphis: Cradle of...

Tracking Happiness: Chapter 12

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 20, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. No Comments on Tracking Happiness: Chapter 12

This is CHAPTER 12 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 now, I can’t promise you it won’t...

Tracking Happiness: Chapter 11

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 18, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. No Comments on Tracking Happiness: Chapter 11

This is CHAPTER 11 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 now, I can’t promise you it won’t...

What is a State After All?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 17, 2019. Posted in General. 2 Comments on What is a State After All?

Y’all! I realize I don’t get out much, but I’ve just discovered that Michigan—a state—is made up of two noncontiguous land masses. The Upper Peninsula, or “The UP” as they call it, isn’t even attached to the rest of the state. It’s the top of Wisconsin. But it’s, you know, part of the state...

One Liners

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 15, 2019. Posted in General, GOD, GRIEF, LOVE, Writing. 2 Comments on One Liners

We, the most Southern couple on earth, are going to Michigan! Mackinac Island, to be specific, which my grandmother Bigmama talked about all the durn time when I was a kid. I’ll share photos. We’re having a book launch at Novel Bookstore in Memphis this July for The Hart Women! The Hart Women is a different concept (a...

Tracking Happiness: Chapter 10

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 13, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. No Comments on Tracking Happiness: Chapter 10

This is CHAPTER 10 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 now, I can’t promise you it won’t...

Today, In Memphis

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 11, 2019. Posted in FASHION, General, GRIEF, HOMELESSNESS, LOVE, Racism to Reconciliation. 4 Comments on Today, In Memphis

Today, in Memphis, we met a fun new couple who have been leaders in Memphis for decades and live in our downtown neighborhood. How? We went to a coffee shop, in Memphis. Today, in Memphis, I had lunch where one of the most accomplished, energetic, enthusiastic women I’ve ever met, and we plotted to end homelessness and world...