Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

We decided to evacuate to a friend's house further from the water. Tides on the beach are running high due to some troublesome hurricane...

Chris, Annie, and I took in “Dune 2” at the Capitol City Digital Cinemas LUXX Studio Theater. It’s new. Not quite as fancy as the ARQ Theate...

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-...

Reading a Dennis Lehane novel is no walk in the park. It is if your park is filled with intrigue, betrayal, revenge, murder, drug overdoses,...

My two most recent reads were “on the road” style of historical fiction novels: “West with Giraffes” by Lynda Rutledge and “Gone, the Redeem...

I belong to the Historical Fiction Book Lovers Facebook group . I spend a lot of time there suggesting books on various topics. I'm surp...

My sisters sent my wife Chris some Barnes & Noble gift cards to ease her path through chemotherapy. I went right to B&N Online and o...

There’s a deer in the works. Not like Kurt Vonnegut’s errant deer in his Welcome to the Monkey House story. This deer just breezed by my ...

Saturday morning round-up Watched the first hearing Thursday night of the Jan. 6 Insurrection Committee. Compelling television. I'm not ...

Odd in 2022 to be rooting for an underdog European country against a maniacal dictator bent on war. Seems like 1939. Not that I experience...

Casting about on the new book releases during the summer, I came across "Ridgeline," a new novel by Michael Punke. He's the au...

The garden has been winterized and the bulbs are in the ground. A pretty good year for tomatoes and Purple Podded Pole Beans, which I keep g...

Check out my latest book review on WyoFile:  "In new biography, Laramie writer McCutchan examines a different frontier." Ann McCut...

"La Petite Fadette" is a novel by George Sand published in 1849. I'm reading it now after watching a 1915 silent film, "F...

Just finished reading "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng. I had seen the title as I cruised Amazon Prime at night, looking fo...

I awoke in the middle of the night and had the strange feeling that this week had been a nightmare. But it’s real. A plague has been l...

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

George Saunders ' novel "Lincoln in the Bardo" is eerie and hilarious. The novel is written by an experienced short story writ...

It takes skill to pull off an epistolary novel. That's one of the reasons I was so impressed by "The Guernsey Literary and Potato P...

Received this letter from my U.S. Senator Mike Enzi today. It was a response to my postcard appeal back in March to Sen. Enzi, a member of...