Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

I feel nostalgic today. Not sure why although it may be that I have many years to be nostalgic about. To begin, I was reading the Sunday pap...

The Sunday Outlook section in the March 2 News-Journal included an editorial by the USA Today Network-Florida Opinion Group. Header: "S...

Chris and I are looking forward to our April trip to Florida. Both of us did some of our growing-up on Florida's east coast, Daytona Bea...

Can you call someone a friend if you haven’t seen him in 40 years? On Monday, I heard the news of the death of my old friend David. He suf...

In Richard Powers' novel "Bewilderment," Theo Byrne’s nine-year-old son Robin may have ADHD or Asberger’s or is somewhere on t...

I returned to volunteer duties at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens this week. In March of 2020, volunteers were put on hiatus during the pandemi...

Jane Hirshfield has teamed up with the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University to form #poetsforscience which will commemorate thi...

This comes from a press release: Culture Fest sponsored by Cheyenne Regional Medical Center The first Culture Fest Promoting Health and ...

It's as if I went to sleep in winter and awoke in spring. For the past two days, hurricane-force gusts have toppled semis on the inter...

The Tooth Fairy is real.  Two young people in Jackson Hole have come up with a compelling project to help save elephants. You may have hea...

More than 300,000 rally for the People's Climate March Sunday in NYC. Can you say, "Goodbye, coal?" I thought you could. ...

Some things that irked and/or entertained me this past week: The state legislature is in session. Opening day included the Gov's Stat...

Wyoming writer Laura Pritchett surveyed the Colorado floods as a passenger in a small plane. Her article appeared today on OnEarth . Also on...

This announcement comes from writer and Wyoming Tribune-Eagle columnist Edith Cook : We are showing the film  Chasing Ice  at the Larami...

Saw this call for entries on the Facebook page of author and environmental activist Terry Tempest Williams . Terry divides her time among U...

On Saturday, I posted about Seattle and the fact that urbanites in that green bastion might have to drink their lattes with a spritz of c...

Michael McGinn, the mayor of Seattle, was interviewed on NPR's "Science Friday" today. He rides his bike to work and wants t...

Bruce McCall's Bulgemobiles, first seen in National Lampoon . I was a clean-cut lad of 19 when the first Earth Day was christened on...

New video about plans for our Powder River Basin Coal (includes model trains and special effects).

Ogallala strawberries. Winter won't last forever. On Tuesday, Feb. 5, 8:30-8:30 p.m., in the Laramie County Public Library's Cot...