Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

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

Michael Connelly, best-selling author and UF and Independent Florida Alligator alum is now writing about his days as a reporter in Daytona ...

I finished watching "Untamed" last night. It's a limited series on Netflix starring Eric Bana, Sam Neil, Lily Santiago, and Ro...

Baltimore's H.L. Mencken may have been the most quotable of newspaper reporters. Some comments are crass and insensitive. Others dug dee...

The Sunday Outlook section in the March 2 News-Journal included an editorial by the USA Today Network-Florida Opinion Group. Header: "S...

I watched "All the President's Men" on TCM Monday night, and not for the first time. A fantastic political thriller in which t...

Reading the Daytona Beach Evening News: City Final. Price 10 cents. Some interesting headlines: Youthful and Elderly Protesters Join in ...

Susan Stubson of Casper has been writing Wyoming-based op-ed columns for many years. Most have to do with her family and her husband Tim who...

From today's article in the Business Insider piece about a Miami Herald op-ed about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his "Christ...

It was a cringe-worthy headline above the fold in Saturday's Wyoming Tribune-Eagle :  Air Force base leaders speak out against COMMUNITY...

I don't always read the AARP Bulletin . It's a good publication with lots of helpful info for retirees like me. But, you know, there...

I don’t subscribe to our local newspaper, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle . I am not boycotting it for political reasons or because I was the subj...

I wish I could report to you that the pandemic is over. Alas-- Wyoming Dept. of Health, Nov. 14: Seventeen more Coronavirus-related deaths ...

Just 16 days to the most important election of my time.  My voting timeline stretches back to 1972 -- 48 years. In 1972 in Boston, I cast my...

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...

Some days, I get up and stare at the coronavirus news on my smartphone screen. I can access every news source on the planet and, even thou...

On the one side, you have Trump and his narcissistic minions. On the other, you have nurses. I align myself with nurses. They are on the...

It's been more than a month since I posted here. I guess I could say that I'm in the midst of a dry spell. That wouldn't be accu...

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....

The Oct. 9 New York Times featured an op-ed give-and-take between liberal columnist Gail Collins and conservative Bret Stephens. It was pr...