Remembering and Honoring the Fallen of 9/11, 25 Years Later

IN MEMORIAM THE THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT LIVES THAT WERE TRAGICALLY LOST BECAUSE OF THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 ATTACKS, WHICH OCCURRED EXACTLY QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO TODAY. WE WILL ETERNALLY PAY LOVING TRIBUTE TO YOU ALL. WE’LL ADDITIONALLY FOREVER BE GRATEFUL FOR THOSE WHO SURVIVED THE HORRENDOUS EVENTS AND/OR BEING PHYSICALLY AFFECTED BY THEM, ALONG WITH ANYONE WHO PERFORMED HEROIC DEEDS THEN & THERE. CATCH MY OTHER POSTS!

Some Things Which Touch me About Philadelphia

FOR MY BELOVED GREAT AUNT, MARIE SLINKARD. MARCH 30, 1929 – OCTOBER 12, 2025 WE’LL LOVE YOU FOREVER, WE’LL LIKE YOU FOR ALWAYS, AS LONG AS WE’RE LIVING OUR MARIE YOU’LL BE. YOU HAVE NOT LOST YOUR PLACE IN OUR FAMILY, NOR YOU WILL EVER. DISCLAIMER: This is honestly NOT a post bragging or boasting about how superb Philadelphia, PA is compared to other cities, towns, and additional places. NOTE: To be clear with you, the following post has since been updated after its publication (the Philadelphia Museum of Art was only just named that in 2026). Of course, we […]

What My Community Does for the Poor

FOR FORMER PRESIDENT JAMES EARL “JIMMY” CARTER JR. WE CONGRATULATE YOU ON BEING THE FIRST EVER UNITED STATES PRESIDENT TO LIVE FOR AN ENTIRE CENTURY, AND MAY YOU, YOUR WIFE ROSALYNN, AND ALL YOUR OTHER DECEASED FAMILY MEMBERS ETERNALLY REST IN PEACE. You might have read my “A Spot for the Community” post about The Community Space in my town of Whitewater, which offers stuff like food, clothing, and household items for people simply in need of them. Still, for those of you who haven’t (or would at least like to read it again), this is the link for it: […]

Talkin’ About a Restoration Project

Well, nothing does last forever, right? Yet some things certainly do return to how they previously were. In some cases, they get restored. Before some things do get restored, however, there may be campaigns or fundraisers to make it occur. And if you want to know one that I now is going on in my community right now, this is what it is: one for a couple of tennis courts right on the edge of the field of my former elementary school. In fact, here is a photograph of a sign on the abandoned tennis courts’ metal fence from one […]

Double Dollar Stores

Well, I may have talked about how a Dollar Tree used to be in Whitewater in an older post, but NOW, here is some news…the chain is returning to the community soon enough! That is right, a second Dollar Tree (although not in the same location as the one that used to be in the plaza mall years ago) is being opened soon enough. Where the second Dollar Tree will be is by the Whitewater FortHealth Care Therapy building (the space by there had been an empty grassy field for many years). Anyway, you also remember that Dollar General I […]

Wanna Know an Eatery That Flies? Here is One…

Well, certainly I have chatted about restaurants in earlier posts, although have you ever dined at one located in an airport? If you have, then perhaps it was one of those larger city ones. However, did you also know that there can be smaller airports (you know, ones that are mainly used by smaller propeller-driven planes) can have such restaurants as well? That is right, and my father and I have eaten at one such smaller airport restaurant a few times. First of all, where is airport simply is? It is southwest of Janesville and north of Beloit in Wisconsin, […]

A Spot for the Community

FOR ROSALYNN CARTER. YOU WILL ALSO BE MISSED, AND LOVED FOREVER. Now, I am certain that you have heard of things such as fundraising drives for food, toys, clothing and other events related to those. Do you recall participating in a food drive at your school? A toy drive? Something like those elsewhere? Of course, that can occur year-round at places as well, such as Goodwill (mom and I have dropped off things there in the past). Suppose it is NOT any part of a chain though; rather, it is only a single center for the community in which it […]

Shore Vision

We have ALL taken a vacation in our lives. Plus, suppose you have visited a beach a number of times in the past (I am certain you probably have). However, fewer people might think of THESE details… Anyone, and I mean ANYONE, would know of beaches involving water and tan sand.

Au Revoir, Aunt Sandy

Yes, this post is indeed dedicated and is a tribute to my beloved maternal aunt, Sandra, who unfortunately passed away just a few days ago, when she was only 57. Aunt Sandy was both my mom and my other aunt, Sue’s, younger sister. My father, brothers, and I had not actually seen her since my grandmother, Lainie’s, funeral service trip, one decade ago in June (she passed away on May 2nd of that year). Yeah, it is normal to not see your aunts that often, yet mom, on the other hand, still had indeed seen her since then. Poor Sandy […]