Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

I am training myself to walk again. It's no walk in the park. I looked up "walk meaning" and found some leisurely reading. It...

Our legislature gathers for a short special session tomorrow to decide how to divvy up the federal pandemic stimulus funds. I’d vote to give...

Tonight, Wyomingites along creeks and rivers in Crook, Carbon, Albany, Lincoln and Sheridan counties are thanking their lucky stars and Gov....

During today's Super Bowl, I'm going to think a bit about depression. I know how debilitating depression can be. But rarely do I giv...

My Tucson son, Kevin Michael Patrick Shay, the poet and theatre guy, wrote the following poem for his godfather, Patrick Kevin Shay. I read ...

Here's the text of a letter I e-mailed to Rep. Keith Gingery, R-Jackson, supporting his stance on increased funding for mental health ca...

This is a good day to remember that Americans can do great things when we work together. Here are some good suggestions from numero uno pop...

Green is the color of insanity. Not sure why, but that’s what it said in the handout distributed today at the Children's Mental Health ...

I only caught the tail end of the Spike Lee and Soledad O’Brien special, "Children of the Storm." It looked good, but it came on h...

Last week, poetry and prose were sources of healing at Virginia Tech. Nikki Giovanni, Lucinda Roy, Edward Falco – these writers in the schoo...

Roger Boyes wrote an excellent article in the 4/20/07 London Times Online about the treatment of war wounded in Landstuhl, Germany, which he...