Tag: anti-bullying speech

Let’s Hear it for the Experienced

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on February 24, 2014. Posted in General. 4 Comments on Let’s Hear it for the Experienced

Listening to the anti-bullying speeches given by the COOL kids—high school juniors and seniors participating in the academic after-school program for those who will be the first in their family to attend college—I wondered about our everlasting tendency to deny those with first-hand experience a voice in solving our problems. The men and women...

Remembering Sonja

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on October 25, 2013. Posted in General, GRIEF. 4 Comments on Remembering Sonja

Her hair wound in a braid down her back, always. She was Indian, her dad a professor at Duke. Sonja was her name. We were in the 7th grade, she a part of the group of girls who had welcomed me, the new student, into their friendship. She wore tennis shoes to school and the long black braid. One time, at a spend-the-night party, I saw her hair...