Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

My eight-year-old son Kevin and I were on our third day of cross-country travel from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Washington, D.C. I had promised Ke...

INTRO: "The Way We Worked" exhibit wrapped up its stint at the Laramie County Public Library on Nov. 16. This Smithsonian-sponsore...

Arts administrator. Nice alliterative term. Features the noun arts , which we all know is a right-brain function, with administrator , whi...

I can't remember The Retiree's name. He had worked in my division, Information Services, at Denver's Gates Rubber Company, befor...

The Laramie County Public Library presents another program that's part of "The Way We Worked" exhibit. This family-oriented p...

Where do you look for work when you're new to Denver? Ski shop? Sure. Colorado was crazy for skiing in 1978 and it was affordable too....

It's no news that suburban malls are dying. Young people avoid their manufactured atmospheres. Families may go into the multiplex to see...

I was convinced that I could persuade a Florida newspaper to take me on as a reporter. I had very little to base this on. I was an English m...

The five-year-old boy from New Hampshire didn't talk much. He held up his right hand as the nurse dressed his wounds and I stood by to a...

We called her Mom. She insisted. Never found out her real name. Her husband Tally called her "dear" or "hon" in the Sout...

"This job stinks," I complained to Ronnie. He looked at me over a pile of dirty laundry. Smoke from a Marlboro wreathed his fa...

My first and only job on the beach lasted one day. I walked from our family's house on Hartford Avenue to a float stand near the Dayto...

The Smithsonian exhibit, "The Way We Worked," arrives in Cheyenne later this month. I thought about my jobs during 55 years, from ...

The Laramie County Public Library kicks off the fall with the Smithsonian exhibit, "The Way We Worked." Sponsored here by Wyoming...