Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Chris, Annie, and I took in “Dune 2” at the Capitol City Digital Cinemas LUXX Studio Theater. It’s new. Not quite as fancy as the ARQ Theate...

I remember how careful we were during the first weeks of the Covid-19 plague. We got our groceries delivered, left on the porch or (if snowi...

Here’s how I used to think about World War 2. It was our father’s and mother’s war. My father joined up early in ’42 and served as a radioma...

The closest I’ve been to Iceland is the Maine coast. No recent volcano eruptions in Maine. Maine weather can be cold but Iceland has it beat...

After watching Oppenheimer with my daughter Annie Storm clouds on the Wyoming horizon looked like giant mushrooms. No surprise as movie s...

Some negative reviews have come in for Netflix's remake of  "All Quiet on the Western Front." They all say the same thing, tha...

I've never read a book's first chapter and skipped to the last one. You miss all of the delectable middle parts, the intrigue and hu...

Saturday morning round-up Watched the first hearing Thursday night of the Jan. 6 Insurrection Committee. Compelling television. I'm not ...

Not enough people have seen "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." It's satire, sure, with a ...

I saw Josh Brolin on Stephen Colbert this past week. He was promoting his new Amazon Prime series “Outer Range.” He said it was part contemp...

I've been watching movies that paint a different portrait of the American West than I was taught in school.  "Lonesome Dove" o...

"La Petite Fadette" is a novel by George Sand published in 1849. I'm reading it now after watching a 1915 silent film, "F...

In normal years, spring is opening up time in Wyoming. Bright morning sun streaks through the windows. We open the windows to let in the fre...

I watched Frank Capra's "Meet John Doe" Friday night on Turner Classic Movies. I've seen it before but not in the Trump er...

Our first public outing of the COVID-19 era was to a combination drive-in concert and movie. It was held in a pasture on the Terry Bison Ran...

I am blogging this morning from the picnic table on our back porch. Eerily still and warm for the Ides of November. Cat snoozing on the chai...

This is the second Thursday of the month so that means... ...the Art Design and Dine art walk from 5-8 p.m. Eight local galleries and exh...

Not going to join the cavalcades of "best of" and "top ten" or "worst of" lists for 2009. I'm going to ste...

Our local paper, Wyoming Tribune-Eagle , featured an article by Robert W. Butler of McLatchy about the prevalance of religion (even "sp...