Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

I was raised Catholic and spent my formative years at mass and in catechism when not attending Catholic School. I'm a recipient of most ...

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I am rereading "Love in the Ruins or The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World" by Walker Percy. He wil...

A eulogy for a friend from a friend:  Books, books, books. Dick Lechman had thousands of books at one time at his Old Grandfather Books in...

Every night before sleep, I call up the Poetry Foundation page and read the poem of the day. It's an eclectic mix, featuring classical...

By now, everyone has viewed the video of the Catholic school boys mocking tribal elder Nathan Phillips on the National Mall. To review, st...

This Saturday, thousands of young people will stage the March for Our Lives anti-gun violence rally in Washington, D.C. Expecting huge crowd...

Below is an e-mail I sent to Father Lopez Catholic High School President Pat LaMorte in Daytona Beach, Florida. It's in response to Mar...

I laughed when I saw the cover of the Aug./Sept. issue of AARP: The Magazine. Over a Peter Max original illustration was the header: "...

"The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things", painting by "Hieronymus Bosch" (disputed), Public Domain, https://co...

Chris and I made solemn vows 35 years ago today in Ormond Beach, FL. First, we got married. Second, we vowed to never smush cake in each o...

What does it mean to be Irish-American? Skin cancer, for one thing. We are light-skinned, except for the Black Irish who are not so much b...

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

On Monday morning, we delivered our daughter Annie to a mental health treatment center on the Wasatch Front. After farewell hugs and tears,...

Wyoming Democrat Charlie Hardy doesn't have the funds for fancy billboards, be they old-fashioned variety or the new e-versions. How...

Remember Hopalong Cassidy on 1950s black-and-white TV? Remember Hopalong Cassidy's Creed? Hopalong was in the news this week, A pres...

Stephen Mattson writing on Sojourners' God's Politics blog had me at the first paragraph: In a world where people are craving ins...

The weekend's summit meeting in Casper between the NAACP and the KKK is kicking up a fuss. The Independent in the UK gave it big pla...

Shylock, Portia, Antonio and the crew from the Wyoming Shakespeare Festival Company come to Cheyenne Saturday for a production of "The ...