Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Fiction must be very dangerous. Why else would parents and school officials be trying to censor Huckleberry Finn , The Scarlet Letter, an...

Headline in today's Casper Star-Tribune : Forget Florida, Wyoming is number one for retirees It's funny for a lot of different rea...

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

Can you imagine a school district anywhere banning the writing of Sherman Alexie, Leslie Marmon Silko, William Shakespeare, Roberto Rodrig...

The Daily Show - Aliens vs. Senator Tags: Daily Show Full Episodes , Political Humor & Satire Blog , The Daily Show on Facebook Arizona...

One of the mantras I've heard at this conference: we must tell our stories. A writer knows this. Story telling is our trade. But there...

Why oh why is a batshit crazy group of Utah right-wingers spending time and money in Wisconsin? Because they are batshit crazy Utah right-...

Tea Party Slim was packing his RV. I stopped to chat. “I thought you’d be headed south before now,” I said. Slim smiled. “There was a Wy...

Today we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Many speeches will be delivered, many of the man's quotes will be requoted. Th...

The National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health released a release this week in response to the tragic shootings Oct. 8...

University of Arizona President Robert Shelton at Wednesday’s memorial for the Tucson shooting victims: SHELTON: I know conclude the progr...

While watching crusty and opinionated Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik on TV over the weekend, I thought, "I'm glad this man is ...

As always, Joan McCarter at Daily Kos provides perspective to today's news -- this one the shooting of Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Gifford...

My old pal, Tea Party Slim, told me that he had a great time at this week’s inaugural festivities in Cheyenne. “Now that Republicans rule ...

My Tucson son, Kevin Michael Patrick Shay, the poet and theatre guy, wrote the following poem for his godfather, Patrick Kevin Shay. I read ...

The most-read New York Times article this week is “What Is It About 20-somethings?” Kids these days! Damn their hides! One of the parag...

My friend Sean Seamus O'Casey Yeats Swift Cuchulain Beckett Guinness Doyle teaches high school in Tucson. His most popular course is Eth...

Fie on all writers who introduce me to new people and places and things on a quiet Sunday morning when all I want to do is sip coffee and m...

Cheyenne's Jack Pugh wrote a great column from Tucson for this morning's Wyoming Tribune-Eagle . It focused on the Sanctuary Movemen...

Wow! Arizona and France and Mexico on stage in London. Hummingbirdminds craves Calexico.