Today is my son’s last day of kindergarten.
Tomorrow is my wife’s first day of hell.
Author Archives: Brian Duffin
Now, we will compare the word unto a seed
Arizona is blessed cursed with some of the hardest and harshest nutrition-robbed soil I have ever encountered.
When I purchased my home almost seven years ago, my backyard was filled with a lush blanket of green bermuda grass. Sadly, over time–and not without a struggle to save it–the grass slowly died in several spots and my backyard became a mixture of bare caliche-ridden ground and patchy grass. Continue reading
Noteworthy: “We know that your temple is sacred”
In the midst of the controversy surrounding the portrayal of the temple on HBO’s show Big Love, I stumbled upon this story from pioneerlocal.com about the firefighters who responded to the water leak at the LDS temple in the Chicago area:
When he arrived that morning, Robinson said firefighters, including Battalion Chief Ted Lancioni, had let themselves in by using the lock box on the front gate and had shut off the water. But they had not gone beyond the equipment room.
“They said, ‘We know that your temple is sacred. We didn’t want to go up there because we know you’d have to rededicate the temple,’ ” Robinson recalled.
A special thank you to the first responders who recognized and respected the sacred nature of the our temple. Hopefully others will recognize the sacred nature of these temples and also refrain from treading on sacred ground.
Guest Post: Dearscriptures.com
After joining a LinkedIn group for returned missionaries, I encountered a web site created by one of the group members that I thought was worth sharing. I invited the site owner/creator, Steve Lloyd, to share a little more about his site with our M* readers.
Steve Lloyd is an Idaho farm boy born and raised in Malad, Idaho where his
father worked for a local dairy farmer. After graduating from Malad High
School he went to Utah State University for one year before serving a
mission in Seoul, Korea. Afterwords, he attended BYU and graduated with a
Business Management Major/Entrepreneurship emphases.
For the past 15 years, Steve has worked in the software industry in
Quality Assurance, Automation, Build Configuration, and Software
Development. An inventor at heart, he is always working on a side project
to in an effort to help others and make the world a better place.
I would like to introduce you to a site I recently launched. It is called http://www.dearscriptures.com and is a site where you can read, study, listen, annotate, take notes, search, lookup a word’s dictionary definition in multiple online dictionaries, and lookup the Greek or Hebrew translation of nearly any word in the Old Testament or New Testament using Strong’s Concordance.
Remembering Paul Harvey
I still remember the first time I heard Paul Harvey. I was working as a board operator at a local AM radio station in Provo, Utah.
There was something about his voice and the way he delivered the afternoon news and commentary. And I couldn’t resist the radio mystery of The Rest of the Story. The morning program was like an Agatha Christie murder mystery novel, but on the radio–always intriguing and exciting…a real who done it!
When the local ABC affiliate in Phoenix dropped Paul Harvey from their program schedule, I felt a sense of loss for that of an old friend. I missed hearing his voice on the radio, that folksy charm and his professions of undying love for his wife, Lynne, who he lovingly called “Angel”; the seamless transition from content to commercial–the man could pitch most any product convincingly.
Today, I again feel a sense of loss as I say again say goodbye to Paul Harvey, who died February 28, 2009 at the age of 90.