Widgets / Drop down problems

I have an About Me widget that appears on the side when in individual categories on my website, but would like that to also appear on the main page next to my scrolling photos.

As it is now, beside the photo is box that is pretty empty except for a quick description on the photo that I don’t really need.

Also:

My site has a feature that shows different categories in a drop down box. The box sometimes won’t drop down and people need to refresh the page to get the function to work. Is there anything on my end I can do to fix that? It’s a fairly new issue that I’m having.

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