Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Artwork courtesy Dean Petersen My friend Dean Petersen in Wyoming is a talented writer and filmmaker. He once joined us at Jeana's Dinin...

The first anthology of The Nomad literary magazine landed in my mailbox yesterday. Unassuming cover with lots of goodies inside. Last summer...

I received the following email from President Biden or someone on his staff and signed by Joe. It was in response to a thank you email I wro...

On Monday morning, we delivered our daughter Annie to a mental health treatment center on the Wasatch Front. After farewell hugs and tears,...

If this is Labor Day weekend (and it is) that means that we honor the hard-working people of the world by shopping at the new Wal-Mart that ...

The first time I heard Joe Hill's name was during the 1970 "Woodstock" movie. Joan Baez, at night, fog swirling around, sin...

Suzanne Morlock is a socially engaged artist from Wilson, Wyoming. This bucolic Rocky Mountain valley town is a long way from Paterson, ...

Saw this call for entries on the Facebook page of author and environmental activist Terry Tempest Williams . Terry divides her time among U...

Kerry Drake wrote a fine piece this week about Living Blue in Wyoming , a Facebook page that had a blast poking fun at Wyoming Know Nothing...

From Jeremy Pelzer's story in the Casper Star-Tribune : Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will hold a pair of fundraisers ...

Posted yesterday by nonnyidaho at Daily Kos was this intriguing piece about a new artistic movement taking root in eastern Idaho and northe...

Why oh why is a batshit crazy group of Utah right-wingers spending time and money in Wisconsin? Because they are batshit crazy Utah right-...

For those trekking to Moab this month... This looks like a barrel of fun -- and its all for a good cause: Each year artists and designers c...

So many things to like in this Washington Monthly piece about the The Next Real Estate Boom . Western cities such as Salt Lake City, Denver...

Why is Glenn Beck casting his crazy eyes at the southwest corner of Wyoming? Could it be that one of the Republican Party candidates for Wyo...

Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah is going to kick MoveOn.org in the teeth. MoveOn members picketed his D.C. office to protest the fact that he has s...

David Frey writes in New West about the Rocky Mountain region's richest people, at least according to Forbes Magazine . I'm a bit a...

"The pursuit of the big sky and the attitude of 'Don't fence me in' may be one of the reasons why Idaho leads the nation in...

I watched Orrin Hatch's comments today at Ted Kennedy's memorial. I wondered: who is this conservative LDS raconteur who was Teddy...

I live in the libertarian-minded Rocky Mountain West. I'm a resident of Wyoming, the second-most conservative state in the nation. Utah ...