Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

My father, 21, standing out in a field in France, February 1945. He writes a caption to the photo: “I hadn’t had a haircut in three months. ...

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...

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...

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...

My sister sent me a packet of stuff she cleaned out of her attic. In it, I found a printout from The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundati...

June 1966. My boss asked me why I was drilling a hole so close to the frothing ocean. High tide coming, boy. Looking for bananafish, I said,...

Here’s how I used to think about World War 2. It was our father’s and mother’s war. My father joined up early in ’42 and served as a radioma...

Just when I think I’ve read every World War Two-era novel…. “Clark and Division” by Naomi Hirahara brings us into the life of Aki Ito. She...

“The Paris Apartment” by Kelly Bowen is the second book recommended on the Historical Fiction Book Lovers Facebook site to take me back to F...

I was gobsmacked by an historical novel written about a famous author’s experiences in World War II. “Sergeant Salinger” by Jerome Charyn ...

I write a fan letter to fellow writer Colin Asher : Dear Colin: Just finished reading “Never a Lovely So Real.” I loved it. Your intro secti...

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...

I’ve always been fascinated with Paris in the 1920s and 30s. The inter-war period. The tensions of those years add pizzaz to any book. So ma...

World War 1’s Meuse-Argonne offensive began on Sept. 26, 1918, and halted with the announcement of the Armistice on Nov. 11. It was the larg...

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

Not enough people have seen "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." It's satire, sure, with a ...

Russia invaded Ukraine this week. Putin does not want a democracy on its border. The Ukrainians are fighting back. The U.S. knows what joini...

I am coming to the end of a first draft of a novel set in 1919 Denver. I wasn't around then so I've done a lot of research to get a ...

"That's some catch, that Catch-22.  "It's the best there is." Those lines stuck in my head in 1969 and never left...