Penny For Your Thoughts by: Nancy Whitaker IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul Some of our hymns are very old and have been sung for years. When…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker If you were raising a family in the 1970s and 1980s, you might have some memories of the trendy drink at that time … Sun Tea. I don’t know who came up with the idea, but I thought it was cool. My family lived in Scott, Ohio and so…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker I was always told that “Pride goeth before a fall” I am not much of a bragger, but in this column I am proud and want to tell about The West Bend News and the column I wrote a few weeks ago about Little House on the Prairie…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker One of my favorite childhood stories is that of The Little Red Hen. This is not only a good story, but has some valuable lessons in it. The story goes “Once upon a time there was a little red hen who lived with her friends, the cow, the…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker I was chatting with my friend, Mary Partin, the other day and she sent me a picture of her 80 year old Christmas Cactus. I was surprised because I did not know a cactus could live that long. In fact, I have never had a green thumb and…
Penny for your Thoughts by: Nancy Whitaker I remember years ago I was singing a song with my grandma in church. All of a sudden I looked down at her hands and I got tears in my eyes. I knew the work my grandma did with those hands and knew hard work and love were…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Was I braver when I was younger or did we just live in different times? I remember when I was 20 (long time ago) I had a husband, 2 little girls at home, worked 6 days a week in a restaurant and went to Ft. Wayne on Saturdays where I…
Penny For Your Thoughts by: Nancy Whitaker They usually say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. However, in today’s world we live in it’s customary to grab a Pop Tart or a protein bar and go. I love my coffee in the morning and oh how coffee pots have changed. Grandma had one that she set…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Something we all like to do, including every species, is eat. I call myself a foodie cause I love to cook and eat. Every place we go and do, such as the fairs, restaurants, churches, schools and almost every event, there is food. We can eat snacks, cakes, pies, potatoes, vegetables,…
Penny For Your Thought By: Nancy Whitaker Maybe no guys ever read the books or watched the TV Series, but 50 years ago when Little House on the Prairie came on TV, my family was in front of our television watching it. Going back even farther than 60 years, was when I was in school, one of my favorite things…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker The first official Groundhog Day celebration took place on February 2, 1887, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. The annual ritual has roots in pre-Christian traditions and was brought to the U.S. by German immigrants. Phil, the groundhog, emerges from his burrow each year the morning of Feb. 2. If he sees…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker We all have funny stories to tell either about ourselves or someone else. One of my funniest memories was in the middle of the 2000s. My husband and I decided to go to Atlantic City to try our luck with those greedy machines at the casinos. We wanted to…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker We all have stories about the past and a lot of us believe that their decade was the best . I love going back and reading about the Royals and some of their practices and this was not old sayings, they were a way of life.. Back in the 1500– 1700s, hygiene…
