The Whited News

Oh I guess it was probably aound 23 or 24 years ago when "The Whited News" was created as a way to keep family members abrest of the latest news within the family. Due to it's suprising popularity, "The Whited News" continued in circulation for 2 or 3 years and apparently provided much entertainment for it's readers. Way back then, the staff of the newspaper would handwrite the text on notebook paper and then it was photocopied and mailed out to more than a dozen loyal subscribers. As I was mowing a few days ago, I began to think about how it was good for our family to keep in touch in that way and how much easier it would be to provide such information in today's new innovations and technology - specifically blogs. So here we go. Now, I know what you all are saying. The Whited News was popular primarily because it would disclose, from a 9-year-olds honest ( and sometimes "too much information") perspective the events surounding the family. This included everything from "Tootsie Swims" which accounted the night the hamster was found swimming in the toilet at 1:00am, to "Tom Fired" when Tom Whited was fired from his "newspaper copier" position by his brother Marc over something that was was sure to be something juveniley trivial. (I remember Tom sacastically stating that he was just so upset about it because he would not be making his 5 cents/hour salary).

So you cannot expect this type of juvenile article writing. It may not seem like it, but I think I have grown up a little. What you can expect is updates on any family news, photos (see this recent shot of Carson and Jackson), whatever. All with the ease of simply visiting the website:

http://thewhitednews.blogspot.com

I will strongly encourage people to make their own contributions to "The Whited News". This can be done in the form of an email to the publisher (mkwhited@yahoo.com) or by simply posting your own comment to an article directly on the site. So my goal over the next few days is to get the word out that "The Whited News" is back.