Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

For decades, I kept a copy of “Fiskadoro” by Denis Johnson. I liked the idea of the book more than the book itself. It was an early post-ap...

I awoke thinking of Walker Percy's "Love in the Ruins or The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World....

I blame Max Brooks. Yes, the guy who wrote “World War Z” and the excellent graphic novel, “The Harlem Hellfighters” (artwork by Caanan Whi...

After watching Oppenheimer with my daughter Annie Storm clouds on the Wyoming horizon looked like giant mushrooms. No surprise as movie s...

I was eight years old in the fall of 1959. We lived in the southwest Denver suburbs and my father worked at the Martin-Marietta plant furthe...

M as in Mike I as in India K as in Kilo E as in Echo That’s the spelling of my nickname in the International Radiotelephony Spelli...

I am surrounded by nuclear missiles. They lurk in their hidey-holes on the rolling prairie of Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado. I give little ...

Donald Trump was elected president a year ago. With our fellow Dems on Nov. 8, 2016, Chris and I watched the results come in, first with e...

Much wailing and gnashing of teeth lately about the state's brain drain. No, we're not talking about the sinking IQ levels of WY G...

Liz Cheney, offspring of Dick and Lynne, declared her candidacy yesterday for U.S. Senate. She will be challenging Sen. Mike Enzi, who once ...

This isn't exactly my cup of tea, but thought I'd pass along this call for entries because it comes from a local press. Who knows,...

Drat! And it was such a juicy blogging topic: The Wyoming House of Representatives on Monday advanced legislation to launch a study into ...

My new favorite Armageddon-savvy, pre-post-Apocalypse, end-times-ready web site is Under the Mountain Bunker  with the motto "Come fo...

Wyoming can't afford to fully fund its Health Department or rebuild its roads. But House Republicans want to spend thousands of dollar...