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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Shangri-la exists!
October 17, 2009 by John Hoyle
Filed under Asia - Pacific, Blog, Travel
If you haven’t yet checked in on Bob and Claire Rogers and their trip across China and southeast Asia, please take a moment and click on one of the links in the sidebar and go check out their progress.… Read the rest
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Confession: I am a hypocrite
October 13, 2009 by John Hoyle
Filed under Blog
I guess it’s time for me to come clean and admit that I am a hypocrite. Maybe I’m not the worst kind of hypocrite, but a hypocrite just the same.
Let me give you some examples:
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