Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center  web site has become the key Covid-19 site in the U.S. and probably worldwide. Stats as of 5/1...

I was noodling around on my PC and I clicked on the Cheyenne Arts web site. I was pleased to see an upgraded site now includes a  Cheyenne A...

I just received a copy of Ken Waldman's "Trump Sonnets, Volume 8: The Final Four Months." This is good news/good news. Another...

We received 31 or 36 inches of snow in our weekend blizzard, depending on who's doing the reporting. Anything more than 30 inches is a l...

NPR just posted this news. It bears reposting: The Senate approved President Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan Saturday, sec...

I received my first Covid-19 injection on Jan. 15. I saw a message Wednesday on the MyChart page of the Cheyenne Regional Medical Center. It...

Time to take stock of the year that was. I wrote 67 posts this year. Published posts, that is. I wrote 10 or more that I didn't post. Th...

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

Wyoming has seen a huge Covid-19 upsurge in recent weeks. Wyo shows up regularly in the New York Times pandemic tracker. It shows those sta...

Met my friend (and my daughter's godfather) Dick a few weeks ago along with his wife Mary. Personal encounters have suffered during the ...

The Covid-19 death counts recorded by the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Tracker shows the U.S. leading the world with 6.26 million cases and 188...

Just finished reading "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng. I had seen the title as I cruised Amazon Prime at night, looking fo...

Here are two GOP senators from Wyoming who don't have a clue about what people are facing out here. I sent them a plea to pass the HEROE...

I decided to cancel my Aug. 3 appearance at ARTCORE'S Music & Poetry Series in Casper. I was on a double bill with musician Lauren ...

I posted my first blog about the pandemic on March 15. In "The pandemic comes to Wyoming," I mused about the deadly virus and the ...

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...

How have the arts been impacted by the pandemic? Bigly. No surprise, since the creating of art can be a solitary act but it's enjoye...

My sister-in-law, Ellen Berry, died last week in Florida after a three-year bout with lung cancer. She was 61. She was a wonderful perso...