Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Thank the nurse that’s nursing you For saving your life. For saving your life. For saving your life. That’s the end of “Thank the Nu...

Top part of an image posted by an old friend from L.A. I told the friend I wouldn't use his/her/their name due to the fact that it's...

I watched "All the President's Men" on TCM Monday night, and not for the first time. A fantastic political thriller in which t...

I subscribe to the New York Times Online. Because I now live in East Coast Florida, I could also have the print copy delivered. But I alread...

Reading the Daytona Beach Evening News: City Final. Price 10 cents. Some interesting headlines: Youthful and Elderly Protesters Join in ...

What makes a 49-year-old artist abandon his paints and go to war? That’s the question I pondered when visiting the Ormond Memorial Art Mus...

Antiwar protests on college campuses are in the news and it’s no longer 1970. In the spring of 2024, young people are objecting to Israel’s ...

Some negative reviews have come in for Netflix's remake of  "All Quiet on the Western Front." They all say the same thing, tha...

We witnessed a coup attempt Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol Building. Trump and his goons incited other goons to storm the Capitol and disrupt...

We called her Mom. She insisted. Never found out her real name. Her husband Tally called her "dear" or "hon" in the Sout...

"This job stinks," I complained to Ronnie. He looked at me over a pile of dirty laundry. Smoke from a Marlboro wreathed his fa...

From CNN Online on Oct. 23: Americans should anticipate more military operations in Africa as the war on terrorism continues to morph, S...

In a July 26 post , I responded to President Trump's disturbing speech to the Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia. There was a riotous...

Republicans are aghast that someone would be so angry as to take a shot at Congressional reps practicing for a baseball game in Alexandria, ...

I called him Dr. Pratt because it seemed appropriate. John Clark Pratt possessed a deep voice, military bearing, steely gaze. No surprise af...

I admired Len Edgerly's column Tuesday on Medium : "Dalton Trumbo: 'It will do you no good to search for heroes and villains....

"Wow, so disappointed in America right now." That was my daughter Annie's reaction this morning on Facebook. I said simila...

Men of a certain age should read this in Monday's New York Times article: "Donald Trump's Draft Deferments: Four for College, ...

The Rolling Stones rock Havana today. The Western World's Capitalist Songsters in one of the last bastions of international communism. U...