Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

  New sculpture on National Mall in D.C. This is the kind of public art we want to see. 

Top part of an image posted by an old friend from L.A. I told the friend I wouldn't use his/her/their name due to the fact that it's...

A. Friend (not a real name) told me that she and her husband are traveling to Washington, D.C., this week to see the National Museum of Afri...

I feel almost giddy as this week spells the end of Trump in the White House and a new president installed. A new day for Washington, D.C., a...

We witnessed a coup attempt Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol Building. Trump and his goons incited other goons to storm the Capitol and disrupt...

A viral plague kills thousands and forces millions to hunker down at home and practice social distancing when out in public. Black America...

In February, when Trump announced plans for his grandiose Fourth of July celebration, conservative commentator Bill Kristol responded on Twi...

The story resumes... It's been a few weeks, but today I get back to my series "The Way Mike Worked," based on the Smithsonia...

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...

I strolled around the Clay Paper Scissors Gallery last week admiring the "In The Garden" exhibit. It's all about growing thing...

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

Nobody in the Trump administration asked me for help, but I am offering it anyway. First of all, a bit of history about typographical erro...

It's only a movie -- or is it? Indiana Jones punches a Nazi in "Raiders of the Lost Ark." USA Today offered its summary ...

It only took me 31 years to get around to reading "In Country" by Bobbie Ann Mason. Published in 1985, the book explores post-Vi...

I found this bit of history on the web site for the NYC Cannabis Parade : Founding Chapter of the Global Marijuana March. Why wasn't I n...

Nate Cohn at The New Republic doesn't think that Wyoming deserves two U.S. Senators. And not just because Liz Cheney is running for ...

As always, the arts were front and center during this morning’s televised tenth anniversary of trying to make sense of 9/11. Performances ...

Wisconsin's Russ Feingold As we waited for Howard Dean and Russ Feingold, Pamela and I talked about Catholicism. She grew up Cathol...

At an April 8 gathering in D.C., "Arts or Sciences?" was the topic. We need both, of course Peter Cunningham, Assistant Secreta...

Nancy Sindelar of Laramie's Veterans for Peace was at the action in D.C. and Quantico this weekend and asked me to post some of her phot...