Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

My historical novel, "Zeppelins Over Denver," will be out soon from The Ridgeway Press. I recently proofed all 395 typeset pages a...

In my 5/21 post, I brought up a term: word back. Used in a sentence: "I want my word back." Words in my English language have been...

Lone Hollyhock My version: Only one stalk this year. Hollyhock rises among the bachelor buttons and coreopsis. Elbows its way up, beefy ...

Watched the last episode of "The Chair" this week. I laughed, I cried. Various faculty and administrators and students pissed me o...

I suddenly wondered if I was using "hunkered down" correctly in my headers. Is it redundant to use the two together? Is it enough ...

What action verb best describes a heart attack? Most times, the past tense of have serves the purpose. Dad had a heart attack. That's...

Nobody in the Trump administration asked me for help, but I am offering it anyway. First of all, a bit of history about typographical erro...

Not in the arm?

Denver Post reporter Mark Jaffe has been hanging out at the Western Governors' Association annual meeting in Park City, Utah. Yesterday...

Over the last couple days, several prog-bloggers have pointed out the global-warming-denying parts of the House Republicans' energy prop...

Mike Huckabee, one-time Republican presidential candidate and old-time fundie, wrote a poem about Nancy Pelosi. Huck is so proud of it he po...

The American Library Association conducts "Banned Books Week" this time each year. The date for 2008 are Sept. 27-Oct. 4. Please ...

In Wednesday’s New York Times , Maureen Dowd writes about a recent speech at the American Enterprise Institute by Iraq War architect Douglas...