Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

I've spent a lot of time in the 19-teens and 20s lately. A tumultuous time, even if you concentrate on one summer in America as does Bil...

My eight-year-old son Kevin and I were on our third day of cross-country travel from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Washington, D.C. I had promised Ke...

It's not Flashback Friday or Throwback Thursday, but we are venturing back eight years to the Democratic National Convention in Denver. ...

Big crowd of Laramie County Democrats cheer their faves during the 2008 caucus in Cheyenne. Four years ago today, lines were around the ...

Return with us to those halcyon days of yore (March 2008) as Wyoming Democrats prepare for their largest-ever caucuses on March 8. On this...

Wyoming was all atwitter four years ago this week when news came via MSNBC that former President Bill Clinton was coming to Wyoming to stump...

Four years ago, Obama supporters in Wyoming were brimming with hope. We also were making scads of phone calls to Democratic voters, urging t...

Wrap-up on day two of the DNC : Made it a goal to miss most of the early proceedings this evening. My ass was deadened by six straight hours...

To my wife, Chris: I am in a stadium full of people cheering for your candidate, Hillary Clinton. To judge by the thousands of waving red, w...

Cowboy hats and ballcaps outnumber yarmulkes as the headgear of choice in Cheyenne. Wyoming's Jewish population probably falls somewhere...

With the Democratic National Convention in Denver only eight days away, I thought it would be a public service to provide a list of those pe...

The Florida for Hillary campaign is sending me press releases. Actually, they only sent one so far, and that was today. Here are the content...

On Tuesday, Wyoming super-delegate Cynthia Nunley pledged her support to Sen. Hillary Clinton. Nunley was the last of the state's six De...

By the time polls in Montana at 8 p.m., Barack Obama will have enough delegates to call himself the Democratic Party nominee for president. ...

We prepare for the last two contests of the primary/caucus season in neighboring South Dakota and Montana. While the usual MSM outlets will ...

Spent the weekend camping with the family in Rocky Mountain National Park (view from the campground above). The first real weekend of summe...

The Casper Star-Tribune and the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle both carried stories today that Sen. Barack Obama had picked up his fifth super-dele...

While I was in Jackson over the weekend, I was diligent in tracking the votes for delegates to the national convention. I documented the res...

I'm going to have to sharpen my live-blogging skills before the Democratic National Convention in Denver. I prefer to keep track of even...

This evening, Chris Farrell dropped into a local gathering of Obama delegates and briefed us on our role in the upcoming Wyoming Democrats ...