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…
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,…
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…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Bring on the grits, black-eyed peas, cornbread, ham hocks and beans and fried chicken, chess pie for dessert and you’ve got a meal. Southern cooking has become more popular with the recent cooking show hosts and the idea of good home-style comfort food. I know my grandma was…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Have I missed something? Have I grown older without noticing that how I was raised and the things I was allowed to do as a kid has undergone some major changes? I have read and written stories about the late 1800s and in those days, students could take their…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker As Christmas approaches, our love and best wishes go out to our troops away from home. We are here in the land of the free and the home of the brave forever grateful to those who are served and have served to protect our freedom. One story called…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker It seems as each creature on earth either grooms themselves or as they call it, preening. It has been said that the male species is always the prettiest in the animal kingdom and that may be true in the animal species, but not in humans. We women spend…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker The shoe just does not fit. I wrote quite a long time ago about liking to wear shoes mainly for the style. When I was younger, I could wear those high heel stilettos and prance around all day. Why is it that when you age, your feet age…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker If you are anything like me, you may find yourself looking at various styles and trends. Sometimes I look online or in a magazine just to familiarize myself with what’s “trendy” or “cool” as we used to say. Some day, just go to a mall and look at…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker I am a big fan of the being online and also social media, and so is a lot of people. Through the wonders of a computer and the internet, I can see pictures of my great grand babies (yes I am that old), talk with my family and…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitacker With the Internet, television, and IPhones at our finger tips, we have a lot of exposure to commercials. Some of the new commercials I do not know what they are selling or advertising until the end of it. Today, commercials and advertising take up a lot of time and…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Even though I have no pets now, I have had my share of dogs, cats, fish, gerbils, mice and even sea monkeys. I re- member those sea monkeys looked like a lot more fun on the package than they actually were. Our sea monkeys looked like specs of…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker I hear The Mad Ants are changing locations from Ft Wayne to Indianapolis. I have watched them a couple times and here is my two cents worth on the games I went to. A few summers ago I attended an Elvis show at a long term care facility. Also going…
