Mike Foley's blog
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Turn off the spell checker
A friend emailed this message to me a couple of years ago and, in case you haven’t seen it, I thought I would pass it along: I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t […]
‘Conviction overcomes affliction’
We have a tradition in our Laie 4th Ward High Priests group where we invite visitors to share something about themselves beyond the usual “my name is, and I’m from” moment that we do in our adult Sunday School class . . . and on August 8, 2010, we were privileged to learn a little […]
BYUH unveils Hawaiian Studies program
[Story by Mike Foley: Originally published in KALEO, February 26, 1998] All the hopes and emotions of a long-time vision being fulfilled were on display the evening of Feb. 12 when the Center for Hawaiian Language and Cultural Studies at Brigham Young University-Hawaii was introduced to the public. The new program’s introduction occurred on Founders […]
Pass the pliers and nail clipper, please
Back in the mid-60s when I was a Mormon missionary in Samoa, we often had to be flexible when it came to repairing things. For example, in an earlier blog entry, I shared the story of how barbed wire might be used to jump a car battery. Now, I’d like to tell two more tales […]