Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

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...

  Cross-post from Democrats, Republicans & Independents United Against Trumpism .

This is from the official Woody Guthrie web site. I wanted the whole thing due to an ignorance in some quarters as to what the song is about...

Here’s how I used to think about World War 2. It was our father’s and mother’s war. My father joined up early in ’42 and served as a radioma...

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

I am a sitter One who sits I sit all the time now My broken back. Was a time when you Couldn't get me to stay still  Could not get me to...

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

Received a nice letter from President Joe Biden. It really was an e-mail in letter format with the White House logo as a header and Joe Bide...

My brother Tim the postman/father/grandfather is undergoing radiation treatments at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla. The docs ...

In normal years, spring is opening up time in Wyoming. Bright morning sun streaks through the windows. We open the windows to let in the fre...

My stepmother died at a Florida nursing home on April 9. She was 94 and suffering from an assortment of maladies. She had end-stage celebral...

What makes me most angry about Donald Trump as president of the U.S.A.? All of the kind and decent people who live in my country. They des...

Chris, Annie and I saw "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" on Thanksgiving Day. Walking down the corridor to the theatre, I was ...

By now, everyone has viewed the video of the Catholic school boys mocking tribal elder Nathan Phillips on the National Mall. To review, st...

A question for my writer friends: Do odd things happen to you, or are you the odd thing? The answer is important. The world is odd, fil...

From the "13 Artists on: Immigration" article in today's New York Times Style Magazine: Art Spiegelman's "A Warm W...

It's that time again. Christmas season. Or holiday season if you are a damn liberal like me who doesn't believe in saying "Me...

Below is an e-mail I sent to Father Lopez Catholic High School President Pat LaMorte in Daytona Beach, Florida. It's in response to Mar...

What happens when you go to an art opening and you run into an old family friend who has descended so far into mental illness that she is ho...

Front page of this morning's Wyoming Tribune-Eagle The WTE second-page jump header quoted Rev. Rodger McDaniel over a photo of me....