Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

I began to write this Word Back column as Memorial Day weekend began. I was making fun of what America has become in 2025 but forgot about w...

A fine day for a baptism.  Our daughter Annie arrived with Chris and I f or the Salty Church’s annual New Year’s Day full-immersion baptism....

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...

The American Library Association wrapped up Banned Books Week and now there are no banned books in the land. Wishful thinking. Know Not...

Every night before sleep, I call up the Poetry Foundation page and read the poem of the day. It's an eclectic mix, featuring classical...

Columbia University's Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE) wants to find out what white and partially-wh...

From "Divine Ammunition" at the UW Art Museum: Al Farrow,  Trigger Finger of Santo Guerro , guns, gun parts, bullets, shell cas...

I watched the entire Repub debate tonight with some Dem friends. My brain has turned to mush. As far as wordplay goes, kudos go to Mike Huck...

From the Baltimore Cathechism : Q: Where is God? A: God is everywhere That was an easy one to memorize. It also gave us kids food fo...

Kathleen Petersen sends this invitation: Bring your lunch, bring a friend and join in the viewing of a Ted Talk on our theme this month of...

Stephen Mattson writing on Sojourners' God's Politics blog had me at the first paragraph: In a world where people are craving ins...

Why I write, and why I continue to blog. Flannery O'Connor wrote scores of letters during her short life. She might have been a blogge...

Gallup released its religiosity survey this week. Each state is ranked according to how many residents polled by Gallup admit to being ...

Wyoming boasts a number of thoughtful and erudite commentators on the Liberal side. You can find some of the on my right sidebar under WY P...

Matteo Pistono will be the keynote speaker at the Wyoming Democratic Party's Nellie Tayloe Ross banquet on Saturday, Feb. 16, at the P...

Neat column by Beau Friedlander on the Huffington Post : While I was reading commentary about Rep. Todd Akin's overshare regarding ab...

My Liberal Wyoming pals Rev. Rodger McDaniel and Jason Bloomberg. Rodger started "Bibles & Beer" at Uncle Charlie's Tave...

My friend, Gregory Hinton, grew up in Cody and spent some quality time there last year on a research fellowship at the Buffalo Bill Histor...

Face it, Tea Party Slim has the best of both worlds. He spends his winters in Arizona and summers in Wyoming. "I should call you Snow...