Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

This poem grabbed my attention because it captures the moment, as good poetry does. It was posted on Facebook by friend and one-time writing...

  Posted Jan. 9 on Facebook by the poet. Ninety long years ago, Lorca was murdered by fascists. His spirit lives on.

On the morning after I watched the conclusion of “Death by Lightning" on Netflix. One of the final scenes really got to me. It’s Firs...

I look to poetry to ease the pain I feel at the ransacking of my country's democratic principles -- and the destruction of our White Hou...

My presidential bookcase, No Kings Day

Beginning Oct. 16, I will be reading John Fabian Witt ’s book “The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended Am...

I've spent a lot of time in the 19-teens and 20s lately. A tumultuous time, even if you concentrate on one summer in America as does Bil...

As I read Bill Bryson’s “One Summer: America 1927,” I realized that our history is comprised of an amazing number of knuckleheads and heroes...

I salute the turkey oak tree in my backyard. It's a tough little oak. I was looking out the sliding glass door a few weeks ago and saw...

"Bernice Bobs Her Hair," F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story published in the May 1, 1920, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. I...

  New sculpture on National Mall in D.C. This is the kind of public art we want to see. 

Again. Make America Great Again I’ve been exploring this phrase as it has taken over conversations, rallies, bots, blather, mind games, ...

Make America GREAT Again Great as in...The Greatest Generation. As he wrote his famous book on his Montana ranch, Tom Brokaw gave a lot of t...

"Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation, fluoridation of water? Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously co...

The title poem of Eavan Boland's collection "The Lost Land" always moves me. It begins as a confessional with "I have two...

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

Fate had other ideas. We couldn’t sell our house in a down market as hundreds of other Apollo pioneers were trying to do. My father reported...

In a May 16 post, I was only a few hours into reading Amor Towles "A Gentleman in Moscow." Things seemed especially grim at that j...

I’m reading “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah . It’s the story of two sisters in a small French village occupied by the Nazis. The elder s...

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...