Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Spectrum News in Tampa featured this header the other day: Stetson Law School Alumni say no to school donations after Bondi congressional ...

I look to poetry to ease the pain I feel at the ransacking of my country's democratic principles -- and the destruction of our White Hou...

Beginning Oct. 16, I will be reading John Fabian Witt ’s book “The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended Am...

I've spent a lot of time in the 19-teens and 20s lately. A tumultuous time, even if you concentrate on one summer in America as does Bil...

Words are sacred. Most writers agree with that. We use words to convey our deepest feelings. We also entertain and communicate with words,...

 

Update 4/10/25: "Hands Off" was the official term for the April 5 protests. Sorry I forgot to mention it. Perfect label for a resp...

Baltimore's H.L. Mencken may have been the most quotable of newspaper reporters. Some comments are crass and insensitive. Others dug dee...

Update from an old friend and reader of blogs:  "There is a peaceful rally on Saturday, 3/22, at the west side of the Granada Bridge to...

I watched "All the President's Men" on TCM Monday night, and not for the first time. A fantastic political thriller in which t...

When I moved away from Daytona Beach, Florida, the beachside still had sand dunes and you could drive the entire World's Most Famous Bea...

  Something to think about as we face this important midterm election on Nov. 8. A Republican takeover of Congress dooms our democratic repu...

The Wyoming primary elections have come and gone. Rep. Liz Cheney lost to Harriet Hageman who likely will be the next lone House member from...

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...

A new year brings new challenges, such as how are we going to save our republic from the Trump Cult and The Big Lie? Voting is a good start....

 The op-ed in Sunday's Wyoming Tribune-Eagle had a lot to say about the State Legislature's priorities during this time of big budg...

I feel almost giddy as this week spells the end of Trump in the White House and a new president installed. A new day for Washington, D.C., a...

Happy New Year. We are glad to say goodbye to 2020, the Year of the Pandemic. It also was the year that a majority of voters and Electoral C...

On Saturday morning, Nov. 7, we learned that Joe Biden was our new president and Kamala Harris was our new vice president. I was elated. Chr...

Wyoming has seen a huge Covid-19 upsurge in recent weeks. Wyo shows up regularly in the New York Times pandemic tracker. It shows those sta...