Penny For Your Thought 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…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker I am always wondering about something. Sometimes I just like to sit and contemplate things. Today I was thinking about mirrors. I have never met a mirror I didn’t have the urge to look into. They say a person is self-conscious and unsure of themselves if they constantly…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Sometimes, I believe the older we get, the harder it is to accept change. If we stop and think about it, life is full of changes. We come into the world, learn to eat and walk, go to school, attend college, hopefully get a job and…
Penny For Your Thoughts by: Nancy Whitaker This year I played it smart and got a pneumonia and a flu shot. (And yes I got my Covids) I thought I was all set for the cold winds of winter, but I found out about a week ago that there are other ailments which are “such…
Penny For Your Thougths By: Nancy Whitaker Keys, keys keys. We have keys for everything. There are keys to get in the house, start our cars, mowers, golf carts and keys to get in the garage. I really don’t like carrying keys because I can never find them, especially in my cluttered purse. By the way, has anyone ever…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker When we were young kids, one thing we used to do was sit around at night and tell scary stories. The stories were usually about creepy monsters grabbing children. Of course we all made up stories trying to scare maybe a friend as well as each other to…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker When I think of apples, apple cider, apple pie and apple dumplings come to mind. Who can resist the smell and taste of a fresh baked apple dumpling or the all-American favorite, apple pie? We always think that the apple was the fruit that Eve used to trick…
Rudolph is 82 By: Nancy Whitaker After the last cookie is eaten, the last gift opened and then it is time to take down Christmas decorations for another year. We won’t be singing those carols for another year, but the tunes and words to them will linger on just as they have for centuries. One Christmas song that…
By: Nancy Whitaker One certain meat product I had forgotten about was good old canned Spam. I posed the question on social media about Spam and I was surprised how much people like it. Spam always came in a square-like can with a key. You had to take the key and hook it onto a…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker It is always interesting to look back 50 years ago and see what people thought the world would be like in 2021. Sometime in the1960s it was predicted that 50 years into the future, we would have: cities under the sea, automated kitchens that would cook, make coffee and serve meals, cars…
Decisions or Divine Intervention? By: Nancy Whitaker Every day, we literally make tens of thousands big and small decisions, consciously or unconsciously. From priorities we set at work, to stories we tell, from which shirt to wear, to what we have for dinner. Now these are not big decisions, they are simple choices we make such…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Usually they say that the corn should be knee high by July 4, and that summer should be in full swing by now. This year, however, I am beginning to think we are living in a monsoon. My grill is patiently awaiting to cook some burgers, my park benches…
Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker It is always fun to go to an outdoor concert, sit under the stars and listen to a band. I not only enjoy the music, but am always impressed with how people from all walks of life come together in one setting. One of my favorite things to…
