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Derrick "Honeybun" Hewitt

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My name is Derrick Hewitt. I am 13-years-old, and live right above the COVE. I love playing sports, especially football, and my favorite subject is Math. I want to be a TNT agent, marine biologist or a football player when I'm older. My favorite color is lavender. My favorite number is 55. My favorite team is the Patriots. I am black. I am half Jamaican. I love cars and women a lot. I hate people who show off.
Summer 2004

Interesting Fact: I had ten fish. Then my brothers drowned them in a cup of alcohol.

Story Description: Sports and Aggression
Fourteen-year-old Derrick can be pretty aggressive. A big part of why Derrick loves football is that he can hit people -- without getting in trouble. At home, Derrick gets in trouble a lot, and this often leads him to fight with his brothers.

Derrick's Mentor:

Jonathan Glater came to the New York Times almost four years ago in a misguided effort to make more money than he earned as a lawyer at a Wall Street firm. He came to New York in 1999 near the height of the go-go/Camelot years, after spending a year at a law firm in Buenos Aires. Before entering the legal profession he was a reporter at the Washington Post. He has spent most of his life in cities within the Northeast Corridor, growing up in Boston and attending college in Philadelphia. He likes good food and does not get to visit tropical beaches nearly as often as he would like.

Interesting Fact: I personally verified Newton's law of gravity when I tossed a rock that was bigger than my head in the air and it fell back down and hit me on the head. Quite a mess but, undeterred, I followed up by riding a bike down the stairs in my parents' house, right into the front door which was, fortunately, closed. Satisfied, I have concluded Newton was right.

Derrick and Jonathan

Derrick with his siblings (about two years ago ñ before his new baby brother Trevor was born) Left to Right: Derrick, AJ (Andrew), Jamelle, Matthew and Sabrina (in the front)