Month: November 2016

How to be a Winner in the New Normal

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on . Posted in General, RACISM. 11 Comments

I’ve never been with a winner. Well, except that streak when the North Carolina Tar Heels won the NCAA Basketball tournament and the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series and Peyton Manning and the Colts won the Super Bowl. That was an outlier. The problem is, I don’t tend to pick my “teams” based on winner criteria....

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My Patriotism, Who Knew?

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on . Posted in General, GRIEF, LAWYER, LOVE. 2 Comments

For almost a week now, creeping unbidden into my brain is the image of me early voting. I keep seeing me walking across the voting precinct floor. I pause, touching the arm of the poll worker who is leading me to my machine. He is older, African American, and he pauses too. “I feel like I did when I voted for President Obama,” I tell...

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My Choice, One Way or Another

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on . Posted in General, GRIEF. 5 Comments

For some of you this might be too much information, but for too long we haven’t shared then complained when others don’t understand. So here goes: During the abortion wars of my youth (and by “youth” I mean when I was in my 30s) when the airwaves were filled with demands to ban abortion even in the case of rape or incest,...

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