Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Great article in the Nov. 12 edition of Flatwater Free Press:  How a 101-year-old linked to Willa Cather altered a small town's future. ...

So this is Nebraska So this is Nebraska. A Sunday afternoon; July. Driving along with your hand out squeezing the air, a meadowlark waiting ...

Don’t get around much anymore. Not since March 2020 anyway. Guests arrive August 2021 and it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee and the ...

My two sisters and brother-in-law from Florida had never been to Nebraska. To remedy this, I drove I-80 into Neb ("It looks a lot like ...

Gardening vs. Farming. Hobby vs. Growing Crops to Feed the Family and the Nation I'm a hobbyist gardener. I am not growing a garden beca...

I don't often attend a literary event that has its own security detail. Face it -- it's not often that writers get death threats. ...

Laramie County Community College writing professor Leif Swanson invites us to a presentation by Nebraska writer Poe Ballantine on Monday, ...

Julene Bair Essayist Julene Bair moved away from southeast Wyoming a few years back. We still miss you, Julene! Her words resonate, no ...

Today, I'm thinking about food. No surprise. Yesterday was our annual eating extravaganza. I enjoyed Thanksgiving -- always do -- alth...

Sheridan's Sam Western writes for The Economist,  WyoFile and an assortment of other publications on issues important to Wyoming and th...

Intro: Eight years ago in March 2002, my wife Chris (shown above at left) and I bundled up our two kids and set out for a spring break trip...

An article by Robert Pear in Sunday's New York Times explored items "buried" in the new health care bill. One of those hidden...

I did my Christmas shopping in Chugwater. Actually, Chugwater came to Cheyenne in the form of Sage Hill Fiber Arts and Baker Farms On-Farm B...

These listings come from the "Open Letter," the weekly newsletter of Denver's Capitol Heights Presbyterian/10:30 Catholic Comm...

This is too funny. Notice that Republican Mike Coffman from Colorado and Jeff Fortenberry from Nebraska are among the yahoos who won't g...

The daily newspaper was invented for this. On Feb. 1, the Omaha World-Herald published a long article, "Safe Haven kids finally got ri...

We’ve been hearing a lot about Nebraska’s safe haven law. Thirty-four children -- mostly teens -- have been abandoned in the state since mid...