Snapshots
Dragging Main with a few friends
November 6th, 2011 by John Creighton in Snapshots
Tags: Atwood, Friends, High School
I enjoy driving back and forth on three town blocks for hours on end just as much as the next person. Don’t get me wrong. But sometimes it’s just not a satisfying experience. Dragging “Main” was our primary activity on Friday (after the football or basketball game) and Saturday nights in high school. We didn’t actually spend much time on Main Street. Fourth Street was the main drag in town. The Fourth Street circuit was bookended by the Methodist Church [...]
Read more...Iraqi rocket attacks strike close to home
June 6th, 2011 by John Creighton in Snapshots
Tags: Flagler, High Plains Bank, Leadership, Public Values
LONGMONT, Colo. 06/06/2011 — Modern warfare lets most of us off the hook. Is that good for our nation? News that five U.S. soldiers were killed in a Baghdad rocket attack brought the war closer to home for my family. I had just settled in at my desk this morning when I received a call from a good friend and colleague. I knew something was wrong by the tone of his voice. His son is alive but badly injured. He [...]
Read more...Summer Hunts
June 3rd, 2011 by John Creighton in Snapshots
The Miller Moths are driving me crazy. (We only called them Miller’s when I was a kid but folks in Colorado look at me with a blank stare unless I say “moth,” too.) The onslaught of moths is my least favorite part of late spring/early summer. I hesitate each time I open a window this time of year flinching in anticipation of being hit in the face by the dirty beasts. I pretend not to notice the horrid brown spots [...]
Read more...Happy M’day Betsy
May 8th, 2011 by John Creighton in Snapshots
My mother-in-law, Betty Mickey, ended her tenure as Atwood, Kansas’ longest serving mayor last month. Some people will always call her “Mayor” – my brother-in-law Phil Priebe to name one. But in our house she’ll always be known as Grammies – or Bethel or Betsy depending on how hard you’re trying to get on her nerves. Grammies has six granddaughters and three grandsons. She showers them with love, attention and more candy than her daughters would prefer. She is generous [...]
Read more...So long Cornhuskers
November 16th, 2010 by John Creighton in Snapshots
Tags: Atwood, Family, Kansas, Sports
Dad would have been more than satisfied with the Jayhawks performance against the Nebraska Cornhuskers in their final game as Big 12 rivals. Kansas lost 20 to 3, but Dad never looked at the final score, only the Cornhuskers’ margin of victory. He considered the Jayhawks victors if they kept the spread under fifty-points. That was the requirement to collect a dollar from his long-time law partner and friend, Forest Brown. Dad is the only person I know who could [...]
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