I went to Ski Cooper, north of Leadville, Colo., for my first time today. Snowboarding. My wife, Becca, had gone to Cooper for her first time only a few days ago. She came home and raved and raved about it. She was on a mountain high that lasted into the Read more…
Overview: Victoria Stracke is the curator and publisher of “The Last Hundred Miles: The Diary of Larry Waite.” And she has remained anonymous in that role. Until now. Larry was a gay man who grew up in the Midwest during the 1950s and 60s. He prolifically documented his life for Read more…
The United States seized more than 1.5 billion acres of land from Indigenous peoples between 1776 and 1887. That spans the land we call America from sea to shining sea. I live on stolen land. You most likely do too. Care to learn whose land you live on? There are Read more…
The U.S. flag is a loaded symbol. We — and I mean when taking into account the views of a truly collective, diverse “we” — can see all things in it: pride and shame, peace and violence, protection and destruction, opportunity and greed, freedom and imprisonment … on and on. Read more…
I have not figured out if we are being punished to live during this time in history or if we are fortunate for the opportunity to be here now, to know it, feel it, live it, respond to it and tell it firsthand. History always has been an interesting subject Read more…