Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Following a two-week battle with the summer flu, I awoke early one summer morning to get errands done and to feel the breeze of a cooler summer morning. After hurriedly doing my morning chores, such as drinking coffee and feeding my cat, I got ready, got in my car…
By: Nancy Whitaker When I end my columns with, “I’ll give you a Penny for Your Thoughts” if I ever see you, I will do just that. I began writing this column after the death of my mama. She was not only my mother, but my closest and dearest friend. My mama always had a…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Whether you laugh with a tee hee or a gigantic belly laugh, it is a noise we commonly love to hear. They say I have a distinct laugh, a sound of its own. Have you ever found something so hilarious you laughed so hard that you cried? Or…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Throughout our lives, there seems like there is always something we are concerned or worried about. That’s everyday life. Even as little children we may have not liked a certain playmate. Then if you both got mad at one another, you may have cried or worried about it.…
Penny For Your Thoughts, By: Nancy Whitaker I have watched TV shows on the Discovery Channel about people with strange addictions. Aren’t we all secretly addicted to something? Do we call collecting something a hobby or an addiction? Now, when I was little, my Grandpa Anderson collected pens and pencils. I remember he had a huge trunk with…
Penny For Your Thoughts by: Nancy Whitaker I have watched TV shows on the Discovery Channel about people with strange addictions. Aren’t we all secretly addicted to something? Do we call collecting something a hobby or an addiction? Now, when I was little, my Grandpa Anderson collected pens and pencils. I remember he had…
Penny For Your Thoughts, By: Nancy Whitaker I grew up many years ago and oh how things have changed. We lived in the country, out in the boonies and the most entertainment we ever had was going to church and Sunday dinners after church. Something we had that my kids would not know about is…
Penny For Your Thoughts by: Nancy Whitaker When the days begin to get shorter ( I wish it was now) and the weather turns cooler. can you hear the crickets chirping? Now, I am definitely not fond of crickets and I usually scream when I see one, But. when I hear them chirping, I know fall is coming, school is starting and…
Penny For Your Thoughts, By: Nancy Whitaker We all remember the old TV series, “Gilligan’s Island,” when Gilligan and his crew set off on a three hour tour on the S.S. Minnow and their ship wrecked. The group wound up on an island and made the best out of their surroundings. They always seemed to have…
Nancy Whitaker took the week off from her normaly scheduled column, so we thought we would share with the readers some of her accompllishments as a writer. We are grateful to all of our contributors of the West Bend News, especially a local legend like Nancy! Enjoy! —WBN editors Hooper Awards • 2008 – First…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Does anyone know what a “redneck is?” We have heard jokes and stories about the folks who are from the south and Jeff Foxworthy has made a ton of money with his jokes and quotes about rednecks. A few of Foxworthy’s quotes are – “you might be a…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker They are not only fun to learn, but some of them are actually true. They are sayings that I have always lived by and was disappointed to find out that some just are not true. My grandma was one who believed in old wives tales, moon signs, good…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Yikes! What is it? Does it bite, fly, walk, hop or jump? As we all are getting summer chores done outside now, the critters and insects, birds and bees are busy building nests. One such insect who is looking for a nice warm place to stay is a…
