Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Spectrum News in Tampa featured this header the other day: Stetson Law School Alumni say no to school donations after Bondi congressional ...

I somehow found myself watching an hour-long podcast with two conservatives. Yes, I know I should have been shocked, appalled even, but it w...

Feb. 17. 2026 TO:              University of Florida Annual Giving Program FROM:         Michael T. Shay RE:              Gator Nation...

A round-up is a task performed by cowboys when they bring in the cattle. I am not a cowboy. But I spent 30 years in The Cowboy State of Wy...

I’m the only surfer in this high school annual photo. Me, in front, my board, an Oceanside 9-foot-6 Nose Rider, orange, easy to spot after w...

I discovered Philip K. Dick and his mind-blowing novels at just the right time. In November 1975 I was a non-trad student at the University ...

Some have died. Too many. A High School Friend, knocked back by alcohol, claimed by Covid, I hadn’t seen in decades. No funeral due to the p...

I almost literally ran into fiction writer Lauren Groff outside the Tallahassee Marriott. I was chatting with my sister Molly, the pusher (o...

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...

It’s mid-April and we’re experiencing our usual schizoid mix of warm days in the 70s interrupted by bursts of snow and cold. Humans are conf...

Check out my latest book review on WyoFile:  "In new biography, Laramie writer McCutchan examines a different frontier." Ann McCut...

A Sunday morning round-up. I haven't written one of these in a long time. It's possible I lost interest during the plague year. The ...

I was convinced that I could persuade a Florida newspaper to take me on as a reporter. I had very little to base this on. I was an English m...

Neo-Nazis support President Trump. President Trump supports the neo-Nazis. We know that now. Whatever you choose to call them -- neo-Naz...