Taste This Taste That

Jim Heaney was born an Irish-Catholic alcoholic. He remains one today. However he has been sober for the past 21 years. No one has yet found a cure for the Irish-Catholism.</p>This story begins in a tiny house in Jacksonville Florida and ends in a slightly larger one in Columbia South Carolina. Residences in central Florida Indiana Liberia Georgia Pennsylvania England Zaire (now Congo) and Kansas follow in that order.</p>Much of Dr. Heaney's life involved battles. His most difficult ones were within himself. His struggles included those of self-esteem academics addiction and religion. Several of these skirmishes are ongoing.</p>In his youth he learned to his disdain that 'dilettante referred to someone who dabbled in the arts and academics. Someone who knew a little about a lot. During his twilight years Jim came to realize that he was that dilettante for whom he'd had low regard. Yet age had allowed him to accept that dabbler and hence himself. The older he became the more he realized the less he knew.