Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

I finished watching "Untamed" last night. It's a limited series on Netflix starring Eric Bana, Sam Neil, Lily Santiago, and Ro...

President Biden signed the "Jackie Robinson Ballpark National Commemorative Act" on Saturday. It designates Daytona Beach's 11...

The closest I’ve been to Iceland is the Maine coast. No recent volcano eruptions in Maine. Maine weather can be cold but Iceland has it beat...

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,...

I found Donald Westlake's Dortmunder books and they are fantastic. Always a caper going on. Always sharp dialogue and lots of humor. Wes...

I've never read a book's first chapter and skipped to the last one. You miss all of the delectable middle parts, the intrigue and hu...

I was convinced that I could persuade a Florida newspaper to take me on as a reporter. I had very little to base this on. I was an English m...

I don't often attend a literary event that has its own security detail. Face it -- it's not often that writers get death threats. ...

Attend a free writing workshop on Friday, Oct. 4, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at Laramie County Community College’s Center for Conferences and Institutes...

In the Academy Award winning documentary,   Inside Job , director Charles Ferguson breaks down in a clear and comprehensible way how the...

This June 14-17 conference is timely, as mental health needs and juvenile justice continue to be big topics in Wyoming. Just yesterday, Gov....

Mona Pearl at the Zonta Club of Cheyenne sent out this announcement today: The Zonta Club of Cheyenne is again participating in 16 Days of A...

CIGNA, my health insurance company, is waiting to hear from you. Go to its Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/CIGNAeducation/ . Ask CI...

The epilogue of "The Laramie Project" will be screened at a theatre or library or arts center near you on Oct. 12. It may not be a...

The reading of a play about racial intolerance was postponed last wednesday at the U.S. Holocaust Museum due to a shooting by an intolerant ...

Matthew Shepard, the Casper native who was murdered in 1998 in Laramie Today, the U.S. House overwhelmingly passed the the Local Law Enforc...

Jesse Kornbluth wrote in HuffPost today about Dave Cullen's new book, "Columbine." To read the column, go to http://www.huffin...

"The Colonel" (From The Country Between Us , by Carolyn Forche.) What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His wife carrie...

Our neighborhood is relatively quiet and crime-free. Occasionally, teens tear down our street on the way to the high school. A neighbor got ...