Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

I somehow found myself watching an hour-long podcast with two conservatives. Yes, I know I should have been shocked, appalled even, but it w...

Feb. 17. 2026 TO:              University of Florida Annual Giving Program FROM:         Michael T. Shay RE:              Gator Nation...

Wichita, 1962. I read Tom Swift and Hardy Boys books in bed with my Boy Scout flashlight. It was after the parents’ call for “lights out” an...

My presidential bookcase, No Kings Day

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...

Top part of an image posted by an old friend from L.A. I told the friend I wouldn't use his/her/their name due to the fact that it's...

  Courtesy the Denver Public Library by way of a librarian/propagandist/writer  from Wyoming. The downtown DPL was the first library my pare...

 

I'm a life-long Democrat who has voted against Liz Cheney and for her. And, yes, I was a Wyoming resident at the time. I voted against h...

I almost literally ran into fiction writer Lauren Groff outside the Tallahassee Marriott. I was chatting with my sister Molly, the pusher (o...

It’s mid-April and we’re experiencing our usual schizoid mix of warm days in the 70s interrupted by bursts of snow and cold. Humans are conf...

The Wyoming governor updates us regularly on the coronavirus pandemic. A good thing, since he's come under fire for both not issuing a m...

Neo-Nazis support President Trump. President Trump supports the neo-Nazis. We know that now. Whatever you choose to call them -- neo-Naz...

I watched the entire Super Bowl, from its hope-filled opening to its bitter end. I saw an hour of the pre-game show but didn't watch the...

Read Part I here . April 1939, Cheyenne, Wyoming. In Part II, anti-fascists and their Hailie Selassie automaton prepare to confront fascis...

WyoFile is celebrating Free Speech Week by staging an intriguing photo contest for potential lawbreakers. Let's let the WyoFile folks t...

Jeff Lockwood Who lives behind the carbon curtain? I do. You do too if you're in Wyoming. University of Wyoming prof and author ...

As a Wyomingite, I can't really complain about another state's legislature's interference in the affairs of higher learning with...

Banned Books Week, Sept. 22-28: Hangouts on Air:  Check out the awesome Hangout on Air schedule we have planned for Banned Books Week . F...