Willie Pearl Ellison, the African-American woman who worked for our family from the time I was an infant a saintly human and my constant ally against my mother let me help her in the kitchen when Mama was off playingbridge or having her hems shortened, or lengthened.
"It's a long way to go, and is like a combination of playing three-dimensional chess and bridge and trying to run a NASA space programme, all at the same time, " he added.