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…
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LEAPING LIZARDS
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•Life is full of love, joy, peace, fun, excitement and expectations
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•WHEN YOU FIND IT
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•WHEN I WAS YOUNG
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•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
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•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
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•Depression Era Recipes
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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. 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
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•AFRAID TO CRY
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•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
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•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
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•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…
Frankly my dear, I don’t “give a grit”
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•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…