Tag: memoir

Crack in Time

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on September 6, 2018. Posted in General. 4 Comments on Crack in Time

In the fall, in the South, time stands still. In the South, in what we call fall, dust settles on the roads, climbs onto forgotten porch swings, drifts through open windows to curl on tabletops. In the evenings, the cicadas thrum the air and in the mornings the shelled bugs kick, flat on their backs, dying. The lazy days bleed yellow while the...

Leg Memories

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 7, 2018. Posted in General, GRIEF. 4 Comments on Leg Memories

In 1969, in Jackson, Mississippi, the summer before I entered junior high, I played tennis. I played under the boiling sun. No cloud drifted overhead, no shade cut the heat. In the afternoons, the temperature on the courts hit 110 degrees. I could’ve chosen the cooler Rubico courts where the adults played, but the hard courts with their slick,...

Luanne Reviews WOWH: A Group Journey Out of Homelessness

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on September 16, 2015. Posted in HOMELESSNESS. 4 Comments on Luanne Reviews WOWH: A Group Journey Out of Homelessness

Luanne Castle at Writer Site is a poet and essayist working on her memoir. As she considers the best structure for her story (Scrap: Salvaging a Family—she’s the daughter of a garbage man), she’s reading memoirs by other gifted writers to see how those authors chose to organize their mini-lives between the pages. Best of all, she...

The Allure of Normal

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on January 22, 2014. Posted in General. 7 Comments on The Allure of Normal

Some blogs I’m drawn to because, like me, they are so odd. I like Luanne because she is so normal. Luanne Castle blogs at writersite.org. Her blog has been featured on Freshly Pressed, quite an achievement. Yet she responds to every comment posted on the blog, responses that actually engage the commentator in conversation about the issue she’s...