Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

"The closest thing to heaven on this planet anywhere Is a quiet Christmas morning in the Colorado snow." That's the refrain in...

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...

A big lobster walked down our street last night. He/She/It accompanied kids dressed as characters from kiddie shows I don't watch becaus...

Poetry books arrived this week. The first was “In the Soup,” the second book of poetry by John Calderazzo. John lives in the foothills outs...

My father, 21, standing out in a field in France, February 1945. He writes a caption to the photo: “I hadn’t had a haircut in three months. ...

Last night I finished reading "The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson" by Jerome Charyn. A beautiful novel, wonderful historical ficti...

I discovered Philip K. Dick and his mind-blowing novels at just the right time. In November 1975 I was a non-trad student at the University ...

  Courtesy the Denver Public Library by way of a librarian/propagandist/writer  from Wyoming. The downtown DPL was the first library my pare...

Part 2 of my review of John Green's "Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection. " Rea...

Reading the Daytona Beach Evening News: City Final. Price 10 cents. Some interesting headlines: Youthful and Elderly Protesters Join in ...

I am caught between two worlds. In one, I am at the beach or in a park or lunching with friends at Inlet Harbor. In the other, I tense u...

The most beautiful song about missing snow at Christmas is one written by Steve Goodman and performed by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The song’s ...

When I moved from Florida to Denver in 1978, I wandered down to the local bookstore and bought “Centennial” by James Michener. It was publis...

My new home is in Ormond-by-the-Sea, Florida. It is separated by the Inland Waterway from Ormond-not-by-the -Sea where most of the rest of m...

In my novel manuscript, “Zeppelins over Denver,” three sisters from Ohio travel west in the summer of 1919. Their first goal is to negotiate...

WELCOME TO 7,220 FEET. That's a huge sign on UW's War Memorial Stadium. It's meant to psyche-out teams visiting from lower altit...

“Rocky Mountain High” reminds us of how we sat around a campfire everybody getting high on Colorado in the summer of ’72. John Denver’s melo...

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

I got some very good news last week. An email was tagged: “Your student loans have been forgiven.” First I thought it was fake and then I ch...

Over 400,000 people worked on the Apollo Program. – From the end credits of Richard Linklater’s Netflix film “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Child...