Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker When I was little, I thought my Mama was old at age 30. I thought my grandparents were ancient at age 50. Now my views have changed on what is “old.” Today, I think anyone close to 95 may be old. None of us want to face our…
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Talking to the Man in the Moon
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Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker CROONERS have sung about it, astronomers have studied it and man has walked on it. The moon has had a powerful influence on our lives since time began I have always been a moon watcher, believed in the signs of the moon and I am in awe of…
HITCHIN’ A RIDE
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Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Years ago I remember my Grandma and Grandpa stopping to pick up hitchhikers. Rambling along in an old 1953 Ford, we would see a person who was going somewhere with their thumb out and knew they needed a ride. Yes, we usually picked them up. Hitchhiking back in…
MAKING SOAP
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Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker I have never claimed to be a so called Arts and Crafts person, but I do like to cook and create various recipes and try household tips to save time and money. Everyone likes to save a dollar or two, at least I do, because as Ben Franklin…
A Visit to the Doctor
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A Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker You would think that by my age I would get over my fear of doctors. Doctors have always frightened me and I believe each time I go to an appointment, they will have bad news. There are so many things to check about our health, especially when…
I THOUGHT I SAW A PORCUPINE
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Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker I know that sometimes I wonder about the strangest things. The other night while riding home from a music gig with my friend, I looked over at the side of the road and saw an animal laying there which had probably met his demise on the highway. The…
Where Are the Barber Poles?
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Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Remember those red and white striped poles and what they indicated? Those poles usually meant that the place was a barber shop. The old local barbershops used to be a place where men could go in and get a shave and a hair cut for (2 bits) Actually…
THE BANK ACCOUNT
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Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker We all dream about winning the lottery or some big sum of money. That would be nice, but nine chances out of ten it won’t happen. We often talk of what we would do if we won a big sum of money and our dreams are probably a…
WE ALL NEED A SMILE
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
