Freedom of Skiing Freedom of Skiing - Kids at Kirkwood. ©Kent McCracken As a kid it was all about freedom. Pure and simple! Freedom to cruise. Freedom to go fast. Freedom to wander. Freedom to explore. Freedom to push your limits. It was your mountain. Your nation. Your own private Idaho. If you were of […]

A Wilderness Love Affair A Wilderness Love Affair - Image Adobe Stock - Mt Sopris Colorado Laughter, joy, contentment and exhaustion conspired as climactic emotions fleeting around our ten thousand five-hundred-foot encampment. Six spent humanoids and two snow-encrusted canines busily consumed our third meal of the day at roughly 0900 hours. Oblivious to the morning […]

Virginia Key Grass Roots Festival, a Journalists Perspective Virginia Key Grass Roots Festival - Image ©Kent McCracken An ode if you will, to the organizers, volunteers, musicians and participants of the Virginia Key Grass Roots Festival of Music and Dance. Four days, four stages, forty bands, Miami, Florida. Festival of Music and Dance. Let’s Dance! […]

Featured Editorial Me, Nick the dog, and a Tipi… I lived in this year-round for three years in West Virginia. In two different spots. I hand cut the timbers from eastern hardwood; not what western plains Indians used which were predominantly lodge pole pine. Mine were thicker at the base and much heavier. This home […]