Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

"Did you say that President Trump wrote a book?" The questions came from a middle-aged African-American staffer in the Martin Lu...

It's an "age" thing. In September 2016, just weeks before Trump's election, writer Chris Ladd in Forbes foretold the f...

Republicans are aghast that someone would be so angry as to take a shot at Congressional reps practicing for a baseball game in Alexandria, ...

The history teacher from Texas won the $100,000 Teachers' Challenge on Jeopardy last week. He clinched the championship because he knew ...

Chris and I wore tutus to a local bar last Friday night. Nobody beat us up.  Our tutus were homemade from strips of tulle and, well,...

Front page of this morning's Wyoming Tribune-Eagle The WTE second-page jump header quoted Rev. Rodger McDaniel over a photo of me....

Received this letter from my U.S. Senator Mike Enzi today. It was a response to my postcard appeal back in March to Sen. Enzi, a member of...

Jane Hirshfield has teamed up with the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University to form #poetsforscience which will commemorate thi...

The Trump Chump Chicken was the centerpiece of the Tax March rally today in Cheyenne. The building in the right background is IRS HQ. Some...

On Saturday, April 15, concerned citizens will gather in Cheyenne to protest Trump's refusal to release his tax returns. It's Tax Da...

Newspaper ad organized by local activists at Indivisible Cheyenne and paid for by just people.

It's snowing. April comes in like a lion... Those cruel bastards that make up the Republican Party will get more wake-up calls in Apr...

Sixty people attended last night's Laramie County Democratic Party's monthly meeting in Cheyenne. That may not seem like a lot to...

Sitting in my blogging chair since 2005.... I am not a member of the press. I do not represent the mainstream media in any way. I am a b...

I watched the entire Super Bowl, from its hope-filled opening to its bitter end. I saw an hour of the pre-game show but didn't watch the...

Me: We had 5 million people in Cheyenne yesterday for the Wyoming Women's March. Other person: No you you didn't. Me: Yes we did. ...

Denver's East Colfax Avenue has no "Cowboy Crossing" signs. But I stopped anyway to let two cowboys cross in the middle of t...

Last week, I stood on the disappeared foundation of my old house in Aurora's Hoffman Heights. I thought about the past but gazed out upo...

Remember the impact of The Matrix when it debuted in 1999? The "Matrix" was the false reality created by machines. Humans lived i...

I admired Len Edgerly's column Tuesday on Medium : "Dalton Trumbo: 'It will do you no good to search for heroes and villains....