Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

A reminder for my brother Tommy Shay's Paddle Out this Saturday, April 4: Join us at the Hartford Approach in Daytona Beach at 1:00 PM a...

Tommy Shay and his dog Duke In Memoriam: Tommy Shay  Thomas Gerard Shay (“Tommy”), age 65, passed away peacefully after a short illness on C...

I’m the only surfer in this high school annual photo. Me, in front, my board, an Oceanside 9-foot-6 Nose Rider, orange, easy to spot after w...

Daytona Bike Week goes for ten days each March. It’s an extravaganza for motorcycle buffs from all over North America and even all over the ...

This is my version of a prose poem that I dashed off late last night. Maybe it's not a prose poem. A ramble, maybe, or just a burst of w...

President Biden signed the "Jackie Robinson Ballpark National Commemorative Act" on Saturday. It designates Daytona Beach's 11...

They are tiny figures on the outside sandbar, straddling their surfboards, heads bobbing up with each oncoming wave, and then obscured again...

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...

June 1966. My boss asked me why I was drilling a hole so close to the frothing ocean. High tide coming, boy. Looking for bananafish, I said,...

Chris and I are looking forward to our April trip to Florida. Both of us did some of our growing-up on Florida's east coast, Daytona Bea...

When I moved away from Daytona Beach, Florida, the beachside still had sand dunes and you could drive the entire World's Most Famous Bea...

Just one more thing about Jerome Charyn and J.D. Salinger... In "Sergeant Salinger," the author stresses Salinger's "batt...

Hurricane Dora hit a couple weeks into the new school year. The lead story in that morning’s News-Journal featured an illustration of a swi...

I stepped off the plane at the old Jacksonville airport expecting the worst. It was after dark and August’s heat and humidity wrapped me in ...

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...

Can you call someone a friend if you haven’t seen him in 40 years? On Monday, I heard the news of the death of my old friend David. He suf...

Angel Kisses The sun’s first ray taps the crown of my head. I’m the tallest creature on the ocean, me, a young man bobbing just outside of...

An April issue of UK’s Autocar featured the Renault Dauphine in its list of "22 Totally Charming Cars."  It showed a still life p...

I like to think that I was a witness to history during Moon Landing Week in July 1969. I witnessed the launch from the beach the morning o...

It's no news that suburban malls are dying. Young people avoid their manufactured atmospheres. Families may go into the multiplex to see...