Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Listening to "Dear Prudence" on WPR's Throwback Thursday. Song from the Beatles White Album. Not sure if I bought the White Al...

I am surrounded by nuclear missiles. They lurk in their hidey-holes on the rolling prairie of Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado. I give little ...

I can't remember The Retiree's name. He had worked in my division, Information Services, at Denver's Gates Rubber Company, befor...

Cheyenne's downtown needs help. I'm not the first one to say that. The lead editorial in today's Wyoming Tribune-Eagle said i...

Microsoft's Gregg McKnight was in Cheyenne today talking about a pilot project for a new kind of data center. He was a speaker at the f...

Grand openings are scheduled next week for two new beverage-oriented businesses in downtown Cheyenne. The Freedom’s Edge Brewery opens...

Argentango is one of the many artists and arts groups seen on Old Town Fort Collins street corners during "Streetmospheres." ...

Cool idea. No surprise that Colorado's Governor was an entrepreneur before a politico 2011 SI Snowsport Entrepreneur Award Future lea...

The Feds are sending $6 million in grants to Wyoming for some much-needed transportation projects. Unfortunately, my pitch for a Cheyenne ...

I am always astonished at the many ways people find to be creative. Building bicycles that make smoothies, to name one small thing. I repo...

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead is big on infrastructure. He hammers away on the issue every chance he gets. On Thursday evening, he addressed the W...

The next winter farmers' market will be held on Saturday, Jan. 8, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., inside the Historic Depot in downtown Cheyenne. I w...

Today, I'm thinking about food. No surprise. Yesterday was our annual eating extravaganza. I enjoyed Thanksgiving -- always do -- alth...

Just in the past year, many exciting things have been happening to renew Cheyenne's downtown. The Depot and its outdoor plaza have broug...

"Tomorrow, my health insurance will suck less." That was Rachel Maddow on her Wednesday evening show. On Thursday, Sept. 23, a...

Niobrara Shale -- the blob that ate Laramie County. Map from the Unconventional Gas Center web site . Cheyenne is not a Wyoming “energy boo...

Here is a very creative (dare we say "arty") video by Alan O'Hashi. The corner of Capitol Avenue and Lincolnway (16th Street...

Hummingbirdminds saw this post on the Rocky Mountain Authors at the Tattered Cover Facebook page. While it was written with Colorado author...

As a kid, I read everything in my path: books, comics, newspapers, newspaper inserts, cereal boxes, billboards, etc. I'm one of those gu...