Category: Pennies for Your Thoughts

ONE POTATO

Penny For Your Thougths By: Nancy Whitaker One potato, two potato, three potatoes, four. Remember playing that game? Also there was a game called Hot Potato. We can’t forget Mr. Potato Head, a game I think is still around. Of course instead of playing games with the name of  potato, I would rather just eat…

A QUAINT LITTLE TOWN

A Penny For Your Thoughts, By: Nancy Whitaker If you like watching old television shows, then the TV Channel TVland reruns old shows everyday. One of my all time old favorites is The Andy Griffith Show. The program airs from about 5 pm each day for a few hours almost every evening. When I look at Mayberry,…

BREAKFAST FOR SUPPER?

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Sitting here thinking about what I want for breakfast is always fun and interesting. My usual “go to” breakfast is either cookies, toast, Pop Tarts, eggs or hot cereal. I was always taught that breakfast was the most important meal of the day, especially the coffee. Yes, there…

WHY MESSY CAN BE GOOD

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker One of the things you always want kids to do and even reward them to do is to clean their rooms. Lots of times, my kids would hurriedly throw everything in a closet and shut the door. I had 3 girls and 1 son and the son, believe it…

HIDDEN TALENTS

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Have you ever noticed that there is one in every crowd?  There is always the one person who either knows it all or “thinks he knows it all.”  Who knows?  However, God created us and blessed all of us with some type of talent. I think as I…

MIXES 101

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker I love food; reading recipes and the kitchen is my haven. I recently came across a food blog called Heart, Hands and Home. In a section of the blog there was information called Making Mixes 101. This caught my attention because I thought if I could make some…

THE BUMMERS

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker I saw this little story on Social Media and I thought it was too good not to share.   Every once in a while, a ewe will give birth to a lamb and reject it. If the lamb is returned to the ewe, the mother may even kick…

WORTH OF A PENNY

Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker  The old saying Penny for your thoughts originated in some English text by John Haewood. When these texts were written, a penny was actually a considerable amount of money in England. Adjusted for inflation, it would amount to about 1.6 pounds in English currency or $2.50 USD, today. (Wow)…

Does the early bird always get the worm?

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…

Penny For Your Thoughts

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…

Tee hee or Ho Ho Ho

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…

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

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.…

Strange Hobbies or Addictions?

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…