Archive for May, 2010
Pissy Rivers
March 26th, 2010 by John Creighton in Snapshots
Tags: College, Friends, Kansas
I wrote this post at the beginning of basketball season. The season didn’t play out as I’d hoped. Now, I am an enthusiastic fan of the K-State Wildcats. Ask my kids what our rules are about who to cheer for in a game and they will tell you. KU first, Big-12 second, never for Mizzou. * * * The Kansas Jayhawks men’s basketball team is kicking off the official start to a new basketball season with the 25th Annual Late [...]
Read more...Best Vacation Ever
March 25th, 2010 by John Creighton in Snapshots
It was the greatest vacation I ever had. Impossible to replicate. So good, I never fully divulged my semester of fun and relaxation to the people who helped to pay my tuition. I certainly didn’t write about my daily routine on my graduate school applications. But, it was a great four months. Nineteen eighty-six was the peak of my undergraduate career at the University of Kansas. I was on the go ‘round the clock, had several once in a lifetime [...]
Read more...Choosing A School Is Just Another Form of Self-Expression
March 23rd, 2010 by John Creighton in Dispatches
Tags: Citizen Centric, Education, St. Vrain
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan launched the Obama Administration’s push to overhaul No Child Left Behind last week. The drive for education reform continues in the context that the nation’s goal must be for American students to catch up with their peers across the world. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invested millions of dollars during the 2008 Election cycle to shine a spotlight on American students’ laggard status. ED in ’08 (the Gates financed initiative) aired advertisements documenting the [...]
Read more...Flour Bombs
March 20th, 2010 by John Creighton in Photo Per Day
Tags: Ada Grace, Joe, Longmont, School
Joe and Ada Grace are working on their science project. They are testing what types of casing work best for flour bombs. Useful information.
Read more...Seeking Anonymity
March 19th, 2010 by John Creighton in Dispatches
Tags: Atwood, Community, Longmont
Do you remember the old sitcom Cheers starring Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammar as Frasier and John Ratzenberger as Cliff Clavin? The chorus from the Cheers theme song goes like this: Sometimes you want to go Where everybody knows your name, And they’re always glad you came; You want to be where you can see, Our troubles are all the same; You want to be where everybody knows your name. The song implies that outside the bar [...]
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