Tag: Penny For Your Thoughts

GET AWAY FROM MY CAR OR… …

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker One thing I love to do is read stories, jokes, news and recipes on the internet. Sometimes I run into a story that is too good not to share. So here goes: An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of…

LEAPING LIZARDS

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker  Well, we know that every 4 years we have what is known as a Leap Year and 2024 is the year. The last leap year was in 2020.  If you happened to be born on Feb 29, from what i have read you are called  Leaplings. This is because a birthday…

Cupid’s Day

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker A day to celebrate and shower the ones we love with our affection … and of course is to eat candy!  Candy has become one of the most popular Valentine’s Day gifts. Each year, thousands of people give candies to their sweethearts.  But where did it begin for some of…

WHEN YOU FIND IT

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker  I don’t want to stay in, but I don’t want to go out; I don’t want to bake, cook, or deep fry, but I really don’t want to eat; I don’t want to play the piano and I don’t want to listen to music; I don’t want to…

WHEN I WAS YOUNG

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker It’s 2024, I’m ??? years old, and I still have so many unanswered questions!!!! I haven’t found out who let the dogs out… where’s the beef… how to get to Sesame Street… why Dora doesn’t just use Apple Maps… Why do all colors of Fruit Loops taste exactly the…

PASSED ON DOWN

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Our mothers and grandmothers have  given us so much. They’ve passed down their recipes, china patterns, and their parenting tips, for starters, but, we’ve just realized—they’ve passed down their vocabularies too. We have inherited their styles, their heirlooms, and more than a few of their favorite sayings as well.  From adages and proverbs to their…

Penny For Your Thoughts

By: Nancy Whitaker My children ask me each year: “What do you want for Christmas?” and after thinking about it for a while, I decided to give them my real answer: I want you to keep coming around. I want you to ask me questions. Ask my advice. Tell me your problems. Ask for my…

Depression Era Recipes

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. I have heard and read about Victory Gardens and the various methods and substitutions which people used in order to enjoy and cook sone of their favorite foods. …

T’was the Night Before Christmas

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker T’was the night before Christmas, God glanced over the earth. He looked to and fro,  All over its girth. They missed it again, He said with a sigh, A heavy heart and tear in his eye. I gave them my son, So they could be free. My greatest…

AFRAID TO CRY

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker  “I’m so Lonesome I could Cry,” “It’s Crying Time again,” “Cry me a river,” “Crying my Heart out over You,” “Crying,” “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain,” are all songs about crying. They are sad songs, lonely songs and heartbroken songs. Crying for me is almost like a…

WWII Bat Bomb Fiasco

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker In another previous column, I wrote about different funny bat stories.  However, I did not know they were almost used in WW II. Any World War 11 veterans may recall what I am talking about.  After the devastating  Pearl Harbor attack, America was working on the atomic bomb,…

A LITTLE TATTOOED GIRL

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker  I am always amazed at stories about the pioneers and those who went through hardships to settle our country. Some things we may never think about is just how hard and terrifying their lives must have been. One story caught my attention and that is one about Olive…