Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

  Reposted from a friend's Facebook page. Introduced me to a U.S. poet with Front Range connections whose work I didn't know. It bri...

I've been watching movies that paint a different portrait of the American West than I was taught in school.  "Lonesome Dove" o...

Fiction must be very dangerous. Why else would parents and school officials be trying to censor Huckleberry Finn , The Scarlet Letter, an...

Rita Basom, my colleague for the past 23 years, retired on Friday. We enjoyed a gala week of farewell lunches, a smashing retirement party a...

A few months ago, my story "Cowboy Stories" came out in the anthology Manifest West: Even Cowboys Carry Cell Phones . If you like ...

The National Journal has a scoop today regarding Pres. George W. Bush's heart condition. Apparently, Bush's heart crisis in Augu...

My sister Mary went to M.D, Anderson Cancer Center in Ho u ston to save our brother's life by donating stem cells for his bone marrow tr...

My brother Dan found a match. I wrote over the weekend about Dan’s search for a bone marrow donor. Millions of people are on the donor ...

Did you know that if you're older than 60, docs don't want your bone marrow? I found that out by perusing the web site for the Be...

Chris Cillizza on The Fix at the Washington Post parses the speechifying winners and losers at the DNC at http://www.washingtonpost.com/blo...

What I'm noticing this morning: tiny clover growing at the root of my awakening strawberry plants. I have been reading my way throug...

Cheyenne loses an art gallery, gains yet another empty storefront: The owners of the LINK GALLERY, 124 W. Lincolnway in Cheyenne, are mo...

This goes back to a 2010 rally in Houston in which Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin were in town to support Rick Perry. Still, it's priceles...

We have some of these strange people in Wyoming. They advocate the destruction of Native American religious artifacts. Go to America's o...

Soldier Loses Battle with PTSD: MyFoxHOUSTON.com This is the saddest thing I've seen in a long time (try to ignore the annoying lead-i...

Map of the Ogallala Commons. I live in the northwest corner of the commons, where the High Plains meet the Laramie Range foothills. I think...

Jim Hightower offers ideas on SPECIAL GIFTS FOR IMPORTANT PEOPLE The Christmas spirit is alive and well with my favorite liberal populist ...

I have nothing against Dallas. It's a good city, a sprawling megalopolis that creeps as far as Fort Worth to the west and sends tentacle...

Andrew Osborn writes in the Wall Street Journal about the imminent break-up of the U.S. -- as envisioned by a Russian prognosticator. For a ...

As did so many smart-asses of my generation, I devoured each issue of National Lampoon when it hit the newsstands. All those great humor wr...