Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Teaching kids responsibility
While watching several of our grandkids recently, I recalled something we taught our kids early-on . . . BUT FIRST, I apologize for being away from my blog for a while, just in case anyone out there in the blogosphere wondered if this site is still active. Okay, back to the grandkids: My wife, Sally, […]
Hawaii-based film cgi veteran encourages BYUH students
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, March 29, 2005] Cheryl LaMont [pictured at right], President and CEO of Dot C Software — a Kailua, Hawaii business that does photorealistic 3D computer generated imagery (cgi) for Hollywood and other major clients around the world — urged students interested in […]
Guadalcanal: A veritable WWII ‘museum’
When my wife, Sally Ann, and I were on my East-West Center field trip in 1971, we stopped for a few days on the large, tropical island of Guadalcanal in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate (usually abbreviated BSIP; the island nation would not gain independence until 1978). The place was particularly fascinating to me because […]
Times and things have changed: Part 1
Depending on how old you are and where you come from, some aspects of our lives have changed a lot over the years — largely due to advances in science and technology. For example, when I was a kid in the early 1950s, practically everybody on our block used a “party line.” If you don’t […]