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The Kindness of Strangers

October 28, 2010 by  
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.

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  
Filed under Blog, Personalities, Politics

Robert PhillipsLast 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  
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!) John Hoyle with beard We… Read the rest

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We get emails

October 23, 2009 by  
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Sending emailsI 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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