Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

They are tiny figures on the outside sandbar, straddling their surfboards, heads bobbing up with each oncoming wave, and then obscured again...

We young orderlies, CNAs, techs, nurses fresh from graduation. Voices blared from loudspeakers: code blue ortho, code red ER, code pink nurs...

I was thinking about this today as I went through some tests at the local hospital. I like the idea of a National Service Program for 18-21-...

My daughter Annie invited me to go on the Friday ArtWalk. I used to go every month when I worked at the Wyoming Arts Council. Then I retired...

You will forget things. As you age, that’s the mantra you hear from people who think they know better. Nobody tells you this: you forget how...

We cruise through the Cheyenne grocery store like angels on the wing. We ride MyAmigo scooters, tidy charged-up EVs that transports you thro...

The cover of Jane Campbell's story collection, "Cat Brushing," shows a ringed hand sweeping across the fur of what must be a v...

Angel Kisses The sun’s first ray taps the crown of my head. I’m the tallest creature on the ocean, me, a young man bobbing just outside of...

Watched the last episode of "The Chair" this week. I laughed, I cried. Various faculty and administrators and students pissed me o...

I don't always read the AARP Bulletin . It's a good publication with lots of helpful info for retirees like me. But, you know, there...

My stepmother died at a Florida nursing home on April 9. She was 94 and suffering from an assortment of maladies. She had end-stage celebral...

It's an "age" thing. In September 2016, just weeks before Trump's election, writer Chris Ladd in Forbes foretold the f...

Our young people feel betrayed. Youngsters are getting murdered at a sickening rate. After the Florida high school attack, survivors are...

What do I keep? What do I recycle? What do I throw away? The questions of spring cleaning. Over the weekend, I vowed to clean up my writ...

Me and my Peugeot, back in the day. Bob Page photo. Happy Cheyenne Bike Week . That's "bike" as in bicycle. Bike Week as...

Chris and I are attending a wellness class at the YMCA. The class uses a text entitled "Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions...

Headline in today's Casper Star-Tribune : Forget Florida, Wyoming is number one for retirees It's funny for a lot of different rea...

I get my implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) on Monday. It's an ingenious little gadget, weighing only 70 grams and 12.9 mm thi...

Watching the inauguration festivities on Monday in D.C. made me feel old and out of it. A wonderful African-American First Family with their...

Meredith Melnick writes in Time Magazine Online today about World Suicide Prevention Day, which will take place on Monday, Sept. 10 (t...