It feels good. Yesterday, I finished one of my goals from a week ago, updating my web page. Again, I want to thank friend and brother Jim Earnhardt for suggesting Dreamweaver. It is an excellent program. I am also on chapter two of Sidney Sheldon's Nothing Lasts Forever. It is a fantastic read! My very close friend, Professor Donn Holt, keeps urging me to get into the John Grisham books but I almost fear them. There are so many and reading can become an addiction. Do I really want to become addicted to something with such a large supply?
This morning I will return to writing the Dix Hill Diaries. Dix Hill Diaries is a tentative name for a book about what I consider to be one of the greatest travesties and shames of my lifetime, the closing of Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, NC. While I was in college, I worked there. I saw miracles done. I saw people helped. Years later, I saw former patients on the streets talking to themselves. They were homeless and helpless. Budget cuts are great in theory, but there are things that are more important than a budget and I can't see how any politician can feel proud for putting thousands of people on the streets for the sake of a budget.
Oh well, enough rambling. I will write the book. Hopefully, it will be done by next spring. If nothing else, it will keep me off the streets and out of the pool room.
Dan
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