Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Here is what I have pledged and held close to my heart all my life: The Scout Oath: "On my honor, I will do my best to do my du...

Daughter Annie has been chronicling her graduation experience on her blog . She graduated from Laramie County Community College on May 14 an...

Watched the last episode of "The Chair" this week. I laughed, I cried. Various faculty and administrators and students pissed me o...

OK Boomer! It's a thing now, a quick retort by members of a younger generation when a Baby Boomer rambles on about the good ol' da...

A university professor complained on Facebook that her upper division literature students don't know the name Gerard Manley Hopkins. Nev...

I have traveled to Fort Collins a lot lately, mostly to visit our daughter Annie. She lives a block from the university. She can walk or rid...

As a proud Baby Boomer parent of two Millennials, I am pleased to offer my services as a workplace consultant. According to a report last we...

Gas prices are lower and expected to go even lower. We may be in for $2.50 gas prices in early 2015. Yellowstone had a record 4 million vi...

"If we're going to keep our young people in the state....." How often have you seen that phrase used by Wyoming politicians,...

The March issue of The Reporter newsletter from the Wyoming Public Employees Association (WPEA/SEIU) explains how Republican extremists in ...

Some young creatives are trying to bring some life to downtown Cheyenne during March: Fridays in the Hynds is a new concert series in ...

I love this Occupy Wall Street poster from Adbusters. Curious about the origins and goals of the protest? The Nation  explains it all for ...

I spent my afternoon at the U today. That's U as in University of Wyoming in Laramie. It's the state's only four-year public u...