Periodically, we roll older items off the “MDB Spotlight” column from the homepage and archive it here. It’s simply more good stuff from the MDB community that you don’t want to miss.
7/9/2011
►Larry Richman‘s ongoing lessons on how to work the internet to our advantage features a particularly fine graphic in Publish Your Own Newspaper … ►Jeff Lindsay‘s migration to China continues, this time recounting some blessings that come in Little Answers to Prayer … ►Middle-aged Mormon Man grapples with his youngest’s challenge with truth-telling in Pants on Fire … ►Sutherland Manifesto is not the boss of his daughter in Paige’s Day of Pentecost …
7/4/2011
►John Teal shares with those of us on the other side of the pond his British perspective on America’s Independence Day in Happy 4th of July … ►Kevin Beckstrom‘s sketchbook celebrates the 4th with firecrackers in The Rocket’s Red Glare … ►Richard Tait‘s experiences singing the opening hymn in church in a whole new way in I See the Pain of Freedom … ►Zenoch‘s best of the web blog today features a video sure to bring a tear in Soldiers’ Surprise Homecomings …
Top Posts for June 2011
The top three posts for the month of June 2011, as voted by our readers with their visits, were (drum roll, please): Coming in at number 3, Scott Taylor’s post featured in A Wife Named Gomer … In the number 2 position is a roundup of some of your thoughts on The Book of Mormon musical in Broadway Squeeze Play … and the top post for the month of June was Scott Bagley’s Surviving Pregnancy: A Guide for Expectant Dads!
7/1/2011
►Kirby and Lincoln are up to their funny video shenanigans again in Knife Safety … ►Ever wonder what Ken Jennings, Jeopardy genius, would blog about, if he were a blogger? Well, he is. And he blogs about genius-type things. For example, here’s his post about The Secret Shame of Dyslexia … ►Scott Bagley shares with other fathers the lessons he learned about making the most of that blessed trip in Hospital Tips… We All Need Them… ►Roderick Santiano ponders whether he got Too Cinematical for an Informercial? …
6/28/2011
►Firefighter/Paramedic shares insights about his work in California, including his most recent post First Fire of the Season … ►Braden Bell worries about the breakdown of civility and offers specific suggestions what we can do about it in The Civility Challenge … ►Brett Merritt takes his son for a burger and receives some In-N-Out Revelations … ►Middle-aged Mormon Man pauses to reflect on a man we can truly admire in Heroes …
6/14/2011
►Roderick Santiano recalls the funny New York Doll moment that almost didn’t happen in Random Memoir: Arthur Kane and the Puffy Shirt
… ►Mark Wilcox describes how the third child to come along requires a whole new scheme in Juggling Babies: The Transition from Man to Zone Defense … ►Aaron Quist breaks down the dating code language for future MDBers in “So, you’re saying there’s a chance!” … ►Mahonri Stewart shares his desires and progress toward a Mormon theater company in I Keep Telling Myself, “William Shakespeare was a Businessman.”
6/7/2011
►Michael Lyons shares some of the interesting reactions he’s getting regarding his daughter’s short engagement in Questions. I’ve Had Questions … ►Larry Richman presents the efforts to enlist the help of many hands throughout the world in 10,000 Helping in The Vineyard … ►Jeff Lindsay is Moving to China … ►Mark Wilcox shares that supreme experience of new dadness in Seven Pounds of Perfection: Welcoming a New Baby to the World …
6/5/2011
►Kirby Heyborne announces quietly in a single-paragraph post his casting in Farrelly brothers’ movie called The Three Stooges … ►Pete Codella intends to motivate his son the same way he was motivated in When You Get Your Eagle, Son, You Can Drive … ►John Teal takes a trip to Scotland’s secret bunker in Would You Like to Know a Secret? … ►Josh Weed wants to enlist your help in preventing his 200 lbs. from returning to 300 lbs. in You Just Became My Personal Trainer (FAT PICTURES!!!) … ►Dustin Peterson shares five ways we can quiet the noise around us in 3,000 Thoughts a Day and Counting … ►Mike Henneke seizes a teaching moment when his son recounts an experience at school in I Wouldn’t …
6/2/2011
►Saint Mark takes a first-hand look at the aftermath of the tornado in Joplin, Missouri … ►Dallas Lauchner‘s mom opens her home to a Russian exchange student and changes many lives in a big way in Mom’s Big Love … ►Eric Nielsen suspects that some Mormons will dig Kierkegaard, and some won’t in My Initial Thoughts on Kierkegaard … ►Aaron Goodwin expounds on balance, not as a state of equilibrium, but as an ability to “fluidly prioritize according to circumstance” in Rethinking Balance …
6/1/2011
►Top posts of the month for May 2011 as voted by our readers with their clicks are (drum roll, please) … coming in as the 3rd most popular post for the month was Wife Yelling, by Richard Tait! … and the 2nd most popular post for the month was Prom: Better Late? by Geoff Sagers … and the top post of May 2011 is none other than (cut the drums, already!) Kirby and Lincoln in Therapy by Kirby Heyborne and Lincoln Hoppe! …
5/30/2011
►Larry Richman shares information on the launch of church’s new online media library as well as a call for your participation in LDS Media Library on LDS.org … ►Seti Matua ponders the plight of the volunteer coach in In the Red Corner – Childish Adults … ►Jeff Westover contemplates his participation in The Sick Twisted World of Fantasy Baseball … ►Mike Henneke reconsiders his decision to go play ball with the boys instead of doing something cool with his wife in I Didn’t Stay Home This Time …
5/29/2011
►Ken Craig found some ancient video footage (from the ’90s!) of a performance by the comedy troupe The Garrens, which he shares in Friday Films: Guys’ Apartment … ►Scott Bagley, a soon-to-be father, wastes no time in bonding with his soon-to-be child in Getting a Kick Out of Kicks … ►Seti Matua bravely tackles the topic of man tears in What’s wrong? Are you…? Seriously? … ►Don Carroll has decided that he’s going to do whatever he can to make it to 100 years old in Looking Forward … ►Paul Beer reflects on a desperate prayer he offered at 35,000 feet in Begging and Bargaining With God …
5/30/2011
►Larry Richman shares information on the launch of church’s new online media library as well as a call for your participation in LDS Media Library on LDS.org … ►Seti Matua ponders the plight of the volunteer coach in In the Red Corner – Childish Adults … ►Jeff Westover contemplates his participation in The Sick Twisted World of Fantasy Baseball … ►Mike Henneke reconsiders his decision to go play ball with the boys instead of doing something cool with his wife in I Didn’t Stay Home This Time …
5/29/2011
►Ken Craig found some ancient video footage (from the ’90s!) of a performance by the comedy troupe The Garrens, which he shares in Friday Films: Guys’ Apartment … ►Scott Bagley, a soon-to-be father, wastes no time in bonding with his soon-to-be child in Getting a Kick Out of Kicks … ►Seti Matua bravely tackles the topic of man tears in What’s wrong? Are you…? Seriously? … ►Don Carroll has decided that he’s going to do whatever he can to make it to 100 years old in Looking Forward … ►Paul Beer reflects on a desperate prayer he offered at 35,000 feet in Begging and Bargaining With God …
5/27/2011
◙ Gordon Smith reflects on the time his family farm was struck by a Tornado! … ◙ Middle-aged Mormon Man describes a recent restaurant encounter with a profane fellow diner in Verbal Wasabi … ◙ Jeff Lindsay explores those most generous of saints in Free Wheeling Mormons … ◙ Seti Matua helps us overcome the dread of a call to scouting and its requisite leadership training in Six Days of Pure Scouting Fun … ◙ Linescratchers catches us up on the Killers, Neon Trees and other Mormons in the music biz with its recap Linescratching Post for the week of May 23, 2011 … ◙ Richard Tate celebrates his 200th post by exploring the relative merits of blogging via a Q&A with himself in I See… 200 Sessions of Blog Therapy …
5/25/2011
Ken Craig (a.k.a. John Cusack) recounts his search for the ice cream world’s Kate Beckinsale in Love in the Time of Lemon Zinger … Ben Crowder announces that Mormon Artist magazine is not dying after the next issue after all in Update on Mormon Artist … Larry Richman in LDS Media Talk gives a nice mention about MDB in Mormon Daddy Blogs … Emily Jensen in MormonTimes mentions MDB in her post Bloggernacle Back Bench: End of the World … Middle-aged Mormon Man describes one awkward, yet charming, display of love for a bishop that he experienced in Itty-Bitty True Miracles of Service Pt. 2 … Brett Merritt asserts that it isn’t entirely a wasteland out there in The Six TV Shows That Make Me a Better Man … Tucker Dansie provides some pointers for those who feel life is coming at them too fast in Slowing Down…at the Fastest Pace Possible! …
5/24/2011
Ammon Beckstrom provides some “slightly insightful” advice for how to make the most of what’s been called recess for adults in Turbo Charge Your Lunch Break in Seven Easy Steps … Jared Garrett suggests that there is value in making deliberate efforts to refine our ability to recognize beauty and allow it into our souls in Letting Beauty In … Michael Lyons is man enough to confess what brought him to tears on a flight back from New York City in Tears Were Shed… And That’s Okay … Scott Hinrichs, who is not a pet person, recounts the short life of Stickers, the tree frog in Pets …
5/22/2011
Ben Crowder came to a significant realization that could help many of us who have an overabundance of abandoned projects in our wakes in The Power of Next Actions … Matt Brochinsky, who is chronicling his weight-loss journey in his blog, Just the Fat Kid, had a major breakthrough in A Big Milestone … Mark Wilcox realizes that it isn’t the big bucks that draws him to blogging in 83 cents just doesn’t pay the bills … Braden Bell isn’t a huge fan of the part of his job when he must cast his next show, but it does provide some important life observations in It’s the Most Terrible Time of the Year … Topher Clark shares the upside of someone breaking into your email account and spamming your entire address list in My Email Got Hacked … Tevya Washburn does a Q&A on our very own MDB in his blog, Mormon Life Hacker, What is Mormon Daddy Blogs? Q&A with the Creator of MDB.
5/21/2011
Jay P. Morgan turns his incredible still photography of moments of chaos into video. It’s the new video of the week here … Ben Crowder has posted a simple picture on his blog that says a lot when combined with the post’s title, Death Be Not Proud … Topher Clark shares his take on whether a program to help teach your baby to read equals a spot in an ivy league school in another 17 years or so in daddy blog … Roderick Santiano is doing a daily recap of his current movie in production, which recently included a visit from the police, in Turn Out Those Lights!!! … Middle-aged Mormon Man shows how a pair of verses in Moses 3 can teach us more about parenting than Dr. Laura could in an entire year in Parenting: Eden Style.
