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YesterME, YesterYOU…Yesterday

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Pamela Starr Dewey

When you are forty years old, you may fondly look back on your teenage years as the last really “free” time you’ve had in your life. It was before the stresses of a full-time job, before bills to pay piling … Continue reading →

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The World’s Weirdest Christmas Custom for Kiddies

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Pamela Starr Dewey

Let’s see…I guess it IS pretty weird that here in the USA parents tell little kids that a big rotund guy with long snow white hair and a huge snow white beard, in a red velvet suit, will be dropping … Continue reading →

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Scamming Sherlock

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Pamela Starr Dewey

Before Columbo, before Inspector Clouseau, before Monk—there was Sherlock Holmes. Nobody could pull the wool over Sherlock’s eyes! He spotted every discrepancy, every minor slip-up made by men who were bent on deceiving others. And it would seem logical to … Continue reading →

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That No Should Be!

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Pamela Starr Dewey

A few years back, a mother of pre-school children on one of my Internet forums had commented: What I had on my mind this morning is perhaps the problem [introducing young children to the truths of the God] would be … Continue reading →

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Never Forget

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Pamela Starr Dewey

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, And to those who … Continue reading →

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A Time for Laughter

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Pamela Starr Dewey

This is an open invitation to my friends to take their best shot at sending me an email that will make me laugh! See, for the past nine days I’ve avoided reading, listening to, or watching anything possibly funny because … Continue reading →

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Wild World of Humbugs

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Pamela Starr Dewey

The Wizard (covering up with the curtain): The Great Oz has spoken. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain….the…Great…er…Oz has spoken. Dorothy (pulling aside the curtain and reprimanding): Who are you? The Wizard: (stuttering) I, I, I am … Continue reading →

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Where Did All the Cheerful Music Go?

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Pamela Starr Dewey

A few weeks ago my husband George and I visited the World of Coca Cola museum in nearby Atlanta. We’d visited it in its first incarnation, in about 1992. But it had been recently moved and remodeled, so we thought … Continue reading →

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Trekking through the Wild World of Religion

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Pamela Starr Dewey

In 1974, while back at Michigan State University to take graduate courses for ongoing teacher certification, one of the classes I chose one semester was Social Psychology. It changed my perspective on many things forever. The emphasis of this particular … Continue reading →

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…But Now I See…

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Pamela Starr Dewey

When Jerry Sternin arrived in Vietnam, the welcome was rather chilly. The government had invited his employer, Save the Children, the international organization that helps kids in need, to open an office in the country in 1990 to fight malnutrition. … Continue reading →

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