The Kindness of Strangers
October 28, 2010 by Chi Newman
Filed under Featured Article, Society & Culture
Who says the world isn’t a friendly place? Having lived in thirteen countries on five continents, we met kind and wonderful people everywhere. You don’t even need to speak the same language to become good friends.
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Robert Culp, R.I.P.
March 28, 2010 by John Hoyle
Filed under Blog, Entertainment, Featured Article, Personalities
Actor Robert Culp died of a heart attack outside his home in Los Angeles last Wednesday.

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Mr. Phillips’ Warning – Redux
March 17, 2010 by John Hoyle
Filed under Blog, Personalities, Politics
Last September I wrote an article about my high school Journalism teacher, Mr. Robert Phillips.
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Why we’ve been so quiet
March 6, 2010 by John Hoyle
Filed under About JOO, Blog
We’re not in jail and we’re not hiding out from the IRS. We haven’t joined Al-Qaeda. We’re not hidden away in monasteries. We aren’t climbing Mt. Everest (well, maybe Bob and Claire have considered that possibility!)
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We get emails
October 23, 2009 by John Hoyle
Filed under Blog
I was the surprised recipient of a few personal emails about my recent posting, “Confession: I am a hypocrite.” One comment that I made in that article was the focus of several of these reader responses.
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