Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

It began with a June 19 Facebook post by artist Linda Anne Lopez of Winchester, Virginia. Linda and I met several times over the years. She...

  New sculpture on National Mall in D.C. This is the kind of public art we want to see. 

In my 5/21 post, I brought up a term: word back. Used in a sentence: "I want my word back." Words in my English language have been...

(Continued from Jan. 13) I spend a lot of time at Malcolm Fraser’s “The Soul Escaping Death” painting flanked by a framed spread of many m...

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...

This time every year the Wyoming Arts Council hires me to write the story on the annual Governor's Arts Awards recipients. Some of them ...

“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...

California-based filmmaker Steven Barber wants to put up a memorial to the Apollo 11 astronauts. He wants to place it in Wyoming because it...

Donuts! Haven’t given them much thought the past couple decades. They once were a regular morning feature, coffee and donuts. You know it ...

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...

Saturday Morning Round-up: I’ve been interviewing the recipients of the 2021 Governor’s Arts Awards. These are the awards given annually b...

Sad news arrived from Denver today. Stevon Lucero, the Chicano artists who I profiled in a Oct. 29  WyoFile story  and linked here , passed ...

Great article in the Nov. 12 edition of Flatwater Free Press:  How a 101-year-old linked to Willa Cather altered a small town's future. ...

There's a story here. That's what I said to myself when I found out that two Chicano artists with Wyoming roots were charged with in...

I spent two hours this morning reading Tammy Christel’s Jackson Hole Art Blog and 12 days of posts on Tammy’s Facebook page  about the fall...

One of my favorite loop tours for visitors is Cheyenne to Saratoga via the Snow Range. And then back again. For me, this 300-mile round-trip...

Editing and writing. Writing and editing. The two are inseparable. Younger writers, such as myself a half-century ago, write something down ...