Featured Archives - Ellen Morris Prewitt

When AI Fails

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 15, 2026. Posted in Featured, General, Writing. 7 Comments on When AI Fails

I’ve been working on this essay about Ida B. Wells’ great-grandson coming for the induction of his great-grandmother into the Mississippi Press Association Hall of Fame. I mean, I’ve been working on it for days. Only in the final stages—what? the 72nd hour?—did I realize the true significance of the MPA action. It wasn’t...

Hear Me Out, Sis

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 8, 2026. Posted in Featured, General, GOD. 2 Comments on Hear Me Out, Sis

Even though God is so very important to me, I don’t often connect with devotionals. I’m drawn to them; I buy them. But then I find the tellings sappy, or it feels like the author is trying too hard to make a point. Hear Me Out, Sis: 31 Real Lessons from a Real One by Margaret Cowan, MSW, is different. First, Margaret’s...

Mrs. Wells

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 6, 2026. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 6 Comments on Mrs. Wells

Ellen started it. Not me. Ellen Hebron, the Vicksburg writer who in the 1800s was devoted to the Southern cause. Her honorary membership in the Mississippi Press Association led me to ask if the MPA had so honored Ida B. Wells, who was from Holly Springs and wrote around the same time as Ellen. Two Mississippi writers, one a Confederate married...

The Birthday of Our Country

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 5, 2026. Posted in Featured, General. 10 Comments on The Birthday of Our Country

Have you ever been to a birthday party where all anyone talked about was when the guest of honor was an infant? “So big at 9 pounds 8 ounces.” “She never cried, such a good baby.” “Little round bald headed baby.” And there stands the 21-year-old who graduated college. The forty-year-old raising his own family...

Time Musings

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 29, 2026. Posted in Featured, General. No Comments on Time Musings

I’m such a slouch blogger. I let time drift by and say nothing. Ideas flit into my brain, but no typing on the keyboard, and the ideas flit right back out. Plus, there’s the cloud floating t the back of my brain, whispering, You need to write about the book. Tell them what people are saying. Let them know readers are REALLY enjoying...

In the “Movies”

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 24, 2026. Posted in Featured, General, When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women. 11 Comments on In the “Movies”

I expect I’ve mentioned here how hard it is for me to see photos of myself. Traditionally, it’s been even harder for me to watch film of myself. “Movies,” as they say, rather than still photographs. Recently, I appeared on the Earle Farrell 4Memphis Show. My husband was there during the interview. He said I did a good...

The Kindness of Strangers

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 10, 2026. Posted in Featured, General, When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women. 4 Comments on The Kindness of Strangers

This authoring business is a Blanche DuBois undertaking. Like the heroine in A Streetcar Named Desire, authors must depend on the kindness of strangers. First, an author asks people to come to their event. Then, when the guests arrive, you want them to buy a book. After that, you’re hoping they crack open the book and read it. Once...

This and That

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 2, 2026. Posted in Featured, General. 6 Comments on This and That

I was talking about this and that to the woman who’s been helping me with publicity for the book, and I told her how much fun I was having with this rollout. On a deeper level, I told her, I’ve realized that I have friends. I have loving family. People who support me. I even have unknown readers who are showing up at the book...

The White Egret

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 19, 2026. Posted in Featured, General. 9 Comments on The White Egret

The white egret slowly steps the brushy perimeter of the island’s desolate wash. I clomp down the boardwalk, my dorky water shoes slapping the planks. The egret, who had been grazing, lifts her head. I halt, listening to what she has to say: “Why this barren mud in the center of a lush Island?” she asks. “All around...

Infestation

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 13, 2026. Posted in Featured, General. 14 Comments on Infestation

I am about to cry uncle. We have had a black fly infestation on our back porch. Rotted wood on our steps. Something wafty growing in our hot tub. Something dead under the porch (see above reference to flies). Trim pulling away from the house. Fire ants mounding in the rain-soaked yard. Water dripping from our HVAC register. Termites swarming...