Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Poetry books arrived this week. The first was “In the Soup,” the second book of poetry by John Calderazzo. John lives in the foothills outs...

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

I get depressed thinking about the new state budget cuts. It's not clinical depression. More like a short-term funk brought on by knuckl...

Sequester causes cuts in funding for special needs students: http://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/post/sequester-might-cut-funding-special-need...

I've written before about how right-wing ideology in Wyoming is driving budget cuts for mental health care. After another senseless mas...

American Bison at Utah's Hogle Zoo The following comes from a University of Wyoming press release that appeared on Friday. It ta...

Mitt Romney wants to defund the National Endowment for the Arts. Once again, he's pandering to his supporters on the Far Right. And he d...

Wyoming Equality's Joe Corrigan wrote a letter to concerned citizens today about a legislative cut in funding for much-needed HIV/AIDS...

The upcoming week in Cheyenne is filled with events. But there’s one on Friday that you shouldn’t miss. Lyndsay McCandless, director of ...

For the most part, Wyoming fares poorly in children's health care. It's not Alabama-bad, but statistics provided by national organiz...

Eight years and counting for downtown's "hole" (WTE photo). Build a spec building at the hole site in downtown Cheyenne? T...

As we've discussed at length here, Wyoming's downtowns have launched some innovative projects. I think of downtown Cheyenne's Li...

From the Wyoming Public Media web site: A Wyoming program that helps the disabled has a long waiting list, but a state bill to be introdu...

Holly Sidford writes on the Grantmakers for the Arts site about the new report she authored, "Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change:...

Milford Wayne Donaldson, California’s state historic preservation officer, will be a featured speaker at the Convergence Wyoming 2011 in Co...

The Billings Gazette reports today that more than two dozen Wyoming lawmakers who traveled to Hawaii last month for a conference are costing...

Kansas Wyoming From today's article, "Arts outposts stung by cuts in state aid," in the  New York Times : ...much of Am...

Insignia for the first shuttle launch We were just outside of Hogtown when the first Shuttle went up. Other cars joined us along the side...

I thought I was seeing things when I read in last Friday's Casper Star-Tribune that Wyoming's roads are going to hell. The road t...

Is it possible that Darth Vader is a force for good in the universe? We often rely on arts and music and creativity to lift our spirits d...