What is this place?

2 Pennies Worth is my little spot in the world to share my thoughts or influences on everything from the creative arts and entertainment to family and faith. Sip your coffee, read some insights and maybe even post your own. I welcome comments as you may have 2 pennies worth of thought to contribute.

Who’s place is this?

Well, it’s mine. I’m Scott Saunders, a 41-year old graphic designer who’s raising his family in Paso Robles, California.

Stuff to know about me:

I married my best friend Happy and we are busy raising our two boys, Dayton and Dylan. We are “sold out” followers of Jesus Christ and proudly proclaim Him as Lord and Savior and live our lives in accordance to the Bible and its truths and to serve God in whatever capacity He calls us to.

I am a freelance graphic designer that enjoys the luxury of working from home in sweatpants, with no boss but myself and no cubicle walls. This would help explain my obsession with fonts and typography and other creative specialities like logo design, movie poster design, and many other creative outlets (movies, music, art). If you know a creative, you know that we are an interesting breed.

Other interests? I am a die-hard Los Angeles Dodgers fan and love singing, playing acoustic guitar and gaming (heck, I was raised on an Atari 2600 and classics like Dig Dug, Asteriods, Defender and Pitfall).

What’s up with the name?

The name for my blog site, “2 Pennies Worth”, came about from the two old sayings or idioms:

1) “Penny for your thoughts” which is something that you say in order to ask someone who is being very quiet what they are thinking about. The saying is from a time when the British penny was worth a significant sum. In 1522, Sir Thomas More wrote (in ”Four Last Things”):

It often happeth, that the very face sheweth the mind walking a pilgrimage, in such wise that other folk sodainly say to them a peny for your thought.

and can also be found as an excerpt from Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage.

Arthur Venning who was strolling about, sometimes looking at the game, sometimes reading a page of a magazine, looked at Miss Allan, who was half asleep, and said humorously, ‘A penny for your thoughts, Miss Allan.’

2) “2 cents” worth” which stands for one’s opinion of something. This phrase dates from the late nineteenth century and came from the days of $.02 postage. To “put one’s two cents worth in” referred to the cost of a letter to the editor, the president, or whomever was deserving.