One of Nellie’s jobs is to protect my red writing chair when I’m not in it. Few people understand how important a chair can be to an author. I bought this chair more than 20 years ago. It’s not a high-quality chair, and it was never intended to be the chair I wrote 10 books […]
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Separating a verbal gaffe from intentional racism
Here in the United States, we most definitely have a racism problem. As we work together on fighting racism, we need to avoid hyper-overreaction and be able to separate a verbal gaffe from intentional racism. Here’s an example of a verbal gaffe: Bill Maher calling himself a “house nigger. Here’s an example of intentional racism: […]

