English is a Difficult Language

Editor’s Note: This article was first published at Chi-Newman.com on April 4, 2009. Chi has been nice enough to share it with our readers. I think you will chuckle a bit as you learn the difficulties of

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Farewell, My Beijing

Last fall I had the pleasure of visiting my old friend and the co-editor of JustOneOpinion.com, Dick Kelly, at his home in Tucson, Arizona. While we were having coffee and catching up on each others’ personal lives over the… Read the rest

The Yin Yang Philosophy

Chinese people believe that in order to have a balanced life one must have opposites. You need your ups and downs, happiness and sorrow, highs and lows, black and white, male and female, and of course health and sickness,… Read the rest

Obama's Election

It was very exhausting watching the elections for so many months. I’m glad it’s finally over and even happier with the results.

My husband, Richard, was a Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State for over twenty years,… Read the rest

New Writers & Direction for JOO

During the last fifteen years of my work life, I was a strong believer and fervent practitioner of Continuous Improvement as a business strategy. So earlier this year when I suggested to John Hoyle that he consider using CI to… Read the rest