[GeorgiaMa'am]

I'm reading Chestnut Street, a collection of short stories by Maeve Binchy. I believe they must have been published posthumously, because they're not quite as cleanly written as most of her work. Still, they're enjoyable.

I'm also behind everybody else, it seems, and I am finally reading White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo. I thoroughly expected it to be hard to read, but it's proving not to be quite as difficult as I thought. It has answered some questions that I've been unwilling to ask my black friends, for fear that it would offend them or make them uncomfortable. It has also explained some of the reactions I have gotten from white friends when I try to discuss something like white privilege. It's been, not quite eye-opening, because I knew that some of these problems existed. But it's been reassuring in a way, because I know I'm not the only person out there having these feelings - even if it seems, according to this book, that most white people aren't having these realizations yet. Apparently though, there are a lot of white people who are and who are also doing the work. It's a good read.