The following is a contribution by Thomas A. Whited:

Dear Publisher,
Here’s a picture of Alex J. Whited and his friend Alexis C. Brown taken on Saturday 9/17. You may note that he has a bruise at the top of his nose, the result of a tumble he took in Wal-Mart 4 days earlier. Seems to be following in my footsteps. Also worth mentioning is the “ring” under his bottom lip… another similarity to some pictures of me when I was in grade school.
Sincerely,
T. Whited

This is another shot of Alex outside of Chuck E. Cheese's recently. Tom took this picture with his new digi-cam and sent it in. For those of you who have seen the movie Barfly, you may notice a slight rememblance. - Publisher, TWN

Labor Day at Cataract Falls

The beautiful weather on Labor Day gave us a great opportunity to have a picnic at Cataract Falls about 6 miles from our house. Jackson had never been down there and it had been years since Marc and Kim had been there despite it's proximity.

We had some sandwiches and then walked around the Falls stopping to give Jackson a chance to make a new fuzzy friend and then play on the playground equiptment. Jackson really enjoyed it, and we got a kick out of it because he kept referring to the water falls as the "water fountains".















Here is a shot of Carson on 9/1/05, at exactly 8 months old.


Please send emails to the Publisher at mkwhited@yahoo.com and included family news and events. Photos are especially welcomed!!!!

This is absolutely terrible...

This stuff that is going on down in the gulf area is mind boggling to me. I'm trying to understand what is going on down there and I cannot even begin to imagine it. Really puts things in another perspective similar to what 9/11 did, but the major difference is that 9/11 was in intentional act, whereas Katrina was a natural disaster. I camme across this blog from a guy living in the area. Somehow, he has been able to post regularly through the horrific ordeal and I thought I would post his site here:

http://www.johnstrain.blogspot.com/

Here is what I have seen on TV and read: Bodies are floating around in the streets, rotting. Tens and hundreds of thousands of people are suddenly homeless and without a way to get out of New Orleans, which is 80% underwater. People have been stuck on their roofs for 4 days. Civility is gone and people are in total survival mode. People have babies and small children in these conditions with no food to eat, water to drink, and a restroom to use. I mean this is horrible. Makes me never want to complain about a "bad" day again....