Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Oh I can’t wait to get married, have a husband, a house and babies. I would like my own car too and come home when I please. This used to be every girl’s dream. Well guess what! I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60* years later.…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker I think I am somewhat of a different person because I am very curious about everything. Of course I know some things about different things, but I am likely to make cookies or a cake at 11 pm just because it sounds good. Strange? Not for me.! After I was married…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker The first thing I remember eating anything at school was in Kindergarten. We always had a snack of a round cracker and a carton of chocolate milk, and…it was good. The first time I had a school lunch I must have been in 3-4 grade. We had food like…
Penny for your thoughts by: Nancy Whitaker Our world has always centered around food. Anyone who ever went hungry knows what I mean. When you feel a growling empty feeling in your tummy, you know you better get some chow. I am a big foodie and always have been. Living with my grandparents until age 15,…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker What is your favorite thing to do when you are watching TV? Me? I love to snack. I can sit and watch a favorite TV show and without even thinking I will be munching away and notice the bottom of my bag is empty. I like to snack on…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker I happened to see a headline as I was surfing the net and it was about the 12 worst places to go on vacation. In other words the article was about “don’t waste your money or time going to see these places.” The one that interested me was The…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker An American adventurer went on a journey into one of the most remote jungles on Earth to uncover and investigate a particularly terrifying tribe of cannibals living there. Drew Binski who had traveled in almost every country arrived alone in Papus New Guinea where the Korowai people live in isolation. They live …
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Since I am older, I don’t have a desire to travel too far. I am pretty much a home body who likes to stay kind of close to home, but here lately a little trip sounded pretty good. Just to see new scenery and explore new places. My Sweetie, Denny, has…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Yep. I am old but my memories are vivid. Memories of childhood, teenage years, young adult and…being a Senior Citizen. Sometimes I wonder how times would have been if we would have had access to the internet way back then. First of all, growing up with my mom, grandma and grandpa, they were very…
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…
