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TRACKING HAPPINESS: Chapter 25

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 10, 2019. Posted in General, Writing. Leave a Comment

This is CHAPTER 25 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 be confusing,...

All the Way From Canada!

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on August 7, 2018. Posted in General, GRIEF, LOVE, Writing. 2 Comments

Please enjoy this kicking review of Tracking Happiness: A Southern Chicken Adventure found on Susanne Fletcher’s Wuthering Bites blog. I am thrilled Susanne compared the comic dialogue to P.G. Woodhouse, whose Jeeves collection I long ago fell in love with and read in its entirety (how one gets so lucky as to be compared to a beloved writer,...

What IS a Goat-Doping Scandal?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 20, 2018. Posted in General, GRIEF, LOVE, Writing. Leave a Comment

Enjoy this excerpt from TRACKING HAPPINESS: A SOUTHERN CHICKEN ADVENTURE where Lucinda Mae’s amazing train trip is interrupted by a phone call from her mama Rita Rae and her mama’s boyfriend Clyde Higgenbotham. Turns out, back home in Edison, Mississippi, gossip is flying about Lucinda’s poor dead daddy’s role in the local...

The Bed Rises

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 14, 2018. Posted in General. Leave a Comment

Two weeks ago, this bed was fill dirt. Before that, it was a driveway, a leftover scar from Hurricane Katrina. The bare former driveway. I wish I’d taken a shot of the mountain of dirt we had delivered (but not spread) on the empty driveway. It took a lot of shoveling to get the mountain dispersed. The storm, which hit in 2005, decimated...