A few months ago, I watched this amazing video on a little girl named, Ana, and I happened to run across the video again, this morning. She blew my mind for numerous reasons, but the main one was because of the confidence she exuded.

The first thing you’ll notice about her is her infectious smile and laugh. The second, her profound intelligence. She’s articulate. A deep thinker. As her mother says, “She’s a thirty-eight-year-old in an eight-year-old’s body.”

Many moons ago when I started my VI Corps Combat Engineers of WWII website, I also began a forum, which currently has 2,336 members registered. Our members have made a total of 31,138 posts in 5,423 threads. I’m always pleased to see the amount of traffic it receives on a daily basis, even after all this time. For instance, in the last fifteen minutes (those are how stats are presented), I see 102 visitors. The most users online at one time was 673 on 04-25-2024 at 03:22 PM. That astounds me and makes me feel very proud…

After careful consideration, I decided to close my Etsy shop this afternoon.

I started Discovering BTS approximately two years ago, selling 4″ X 6″ fanart prints of all the members of BTS, and signed copies of my book, Discovering BTS: an unexpected journey. The shop did very well and received five-star reviews from my all my customers. But this year things ground to a halt, so I placed it in vacation mode (took a hiatus) for several months. Several friends said, sometimes it helps to take a break, and I was okay with that…