Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

"The closest thing to heaven on this planet anywhere Is a quiet Christmas morning in the Colorado snow." That's the refrain in...

I awoke thinking of Walker Percy's "Love in the Ruins or The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World....

  Photos of the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home Museum  in Savannah (building in center). It was closed to visitors on the day we were ...

In several Wyoming communities, including Casper, Gillette, Lander and Sheridan, some members of the public have turned typically staid scho...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the intersection of writers and gardening . I mentioned that Flannery O'Connor's Andalusia in Milledg...

I participate in the Historical Fiction Book Lovers site on Facebook. I have discovered some real gems set in the 1920s suggested by members...

BOOTH That family name is infamous. John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. It is one of the most dastardly deeds in U.S. histor...

"Did you say that President Trump wrote a book?" The questions came from a middle-aged African-American staffer in the Martin Lu...

Status updates cycle through Facebook so quickly. A person from academia posted the other day that he was searching for justification for te...

Over my second cup of coffee on this beautiful Wyoming Saturday, I wondered why I still had the Weather Channel blaring from my Smart TV. ...

My mother loved Pat Conroy's novel "The Great Santini." "Why can't you write like that?" she asked, a challeng...

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...

Remember the summer of '74? Watergate summer. CNN's Special on "The Seventies" last night took me back. "America vs...

As a Wyomingite, I can't really complain about another state's legislature's interference in the affairs of higher learning with...

Why I write, and why I continue to blog. Flannery O'Connor wrote scores of letters during her short life. She might have been a blogge...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This was a grad school project by Wayne Thomas that actually never appeared in Doubletake Magazine , which had folded by...

Author Pat Conroy has witnessed his books being challenged and banned  all over the country. Read a letter he wrote to the editor of the  ...

To my readers: You may have noticed that I did quite a bit of posting last week about the Republican National Convention in Tampa without ...

Denver Post columnist Ed Quillen offers some alternative thoughts about Abe Lincoln’s legacy during this President's Day weekend: W...

From a Wyoming Democratic Party press release: Tonight, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement on the resu...