Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Postcard, probably early 1960s, of downtown Moses Lake, Wash. Elmer's, my father's favorite Chinese/American restaurant, is shown on...

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...

Not enough people have seen "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." It's satire, sure, with a ...

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

The Rolling Stones rock Havana today. The Western World's Capitalist Songsters in one of the last bastions of international communism. U...

Hubba hubba! Alas, this Miss Atomic Bomb never really existed. She has a neat story though at http://digital.library.unlv.edu/objects/nts/...

Beautiful morning. Sun, light winds, no snow. So what am I doing inside? Collecting random thoughts on a Sunday morning. Received a fu...

Dan Danbom was waxing quite eloquently Thursday in The Denver Post about "putting Denver on the map." It was a clever piece abou...

My wife Chris and I joined other state employees this evening for a sneak peek of the "Tinsel Through Time" show at the Historic G...

One of the better zingers of last night's debate by President Obama (picked up from Crooks & Liars blog): Governor Romney, I’m g...

My government-issue parents in Denver, circa 1950. Thanks to my sister Mary for the photo. I was born in Denver at the tail end of 1950. ...

Insignia for the first shuttle launch We were just outside of Hogtown when the first Shuttle went up. Other cars joined us along the side...

Stuff Alan Simpson Says is a new web site from http://www.boldprogressives.com/ , a production of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee...

A nuke explodes in April 1953 at the Nevada Test Site. Looks like a painting, doesn't it? As the Cold War recedes into the past, it...

Article from the Morris Knudsen newsletter about the company's 1950s Afghanistan project Just spent the last hour reading Jim White...

In "Dr. Strangelove," when Col. Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) starts talking about commies poisoning "our precious bodily ...

At home in the family fallout shelter If you happen to be traversing Wyoming on I-80 this summer, stop in at the Uinta County Museum in Eva...