Category: Pennies for Your Thoughts

WE ALL NEED A SMILE

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker  Do you like to tell jokes or are you like me and it takes you a while to get the punchline? I am not really good at telling jokes or “getting” a joke. Sometimes I will think of the joke days later, get the punchline and start laughing. …

A CHICKEN HEAD; A FROG AND A SPIDER

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker What do people usually do on a date, before a dance, celebrate a birthday or just do it because it is fun?  We do this when we don’t feel like cooking or we do it because we are hungry.  We do it at graduations; church events; ball games…

Pennies: DON’T RIDE ON THE SHARKS BACK

By: Nancy Whitaker Faith, trust; hope, confidence, love and attitude. These are all traits we all have, to an extent or should have. Sometimes  we feel like we have lost all of them. It is easy to feel hopeless, faithless, distrustful and unlovable. I know because I have some of those days. I happened to…

I MADE IT; I LIKED IT

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker If you lived any time during the Great Depression, you may recall the shortage and the high cost of food. Unemployment was high and it was hard to feed a family  I have heard and read about Victory Gardens and the various methods and substitutions which people used…

Bending My Ear

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker One of my New Years resolutions is to listen to others and acquire more common sense. I am not saying I’m dumb, but sometimes I tend to follow my own thoughts and lots of times it is because I haven’t absorbed or paid attention to what I was…

ALWAYS TIME FOR SCHOOL

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker It is always an exciting time when a new school year begins. Some like it; others hate going back. Of course 2020 brought with it the deadly Covid19 virus and classes were taught at home for a while and many events were cancelled.  Now on a normal school…

ME AND MY HONEY

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Approximately the end of October and also close to my birthday, I decided I wanted anything or someone to take care of.  I have always tried to “mother “ everything and everybody. Since my kids were all grown, I had this overwhelming desire to get me a pet…