Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

I began to write this Word Back column as Memorial Day weekend began. I was making fun of what America has become in 2025 but forgot about w...

During my recovery from April's knee replacement surgery, my friend Liz brought me a Roma tomato seedling. I placed the sprout in my kit...

DAN CEPEDA Star-Tribune:    Vicky Marlow takes snapshots of the swollen North Platte River near the whitewater park in Casper on Friday af...

This invitation comes from my Wyoming Arts Council colleague, Camellia El-Antably, and local artist and arts teacher Mark Vinich: You are al...

Cheyenne's Joanne Kennedy Smyth writes about mirror neurons, empathy and writers. Maureen Dowd: Dick Cheney as Snidely Whiplash (via Dai...

In the High Lonesome, we're more than a month away from planting our gardens. Seeds have been sprouted, plans have been made, but the pl...

While Pres. Bush is mouthing platitudes at Arlington National Cemetery, and receiving leather jackets from misguided bikers, the New York Ti...

As a writer, screenwriter ( Apollo 13 ) and editor for almost 40 years, William Broyles, Jr., knows a good metaphor when he sees one. During...

My father, Thomas R. Shay, was a citizen-soldier in World War II. I have a box of the letters he sent home to his family in Denver -- his fa...