Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Artwork courtesy Dean Petersen My friend Dean Petersen in Wyoming is a talented writer and filmmaker. He once joined us at Jeana's Dinin...

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

Some have died. Too many. A High School Friend, knocked back by alcohol, claimed by Covid, I hadn’t seen in decades. No funeral due to the p...

Chris and I are looking forward to our April trip to Florida. Both of us did some of our growing-up on Florida's east coast, Daytona Bea...

Jerry Lewis played a hospital orderly in “The Disorderly Orderly.” In it, he’s a bumbling idiot with a heart of gold, a type he’s played bef...

As I move on to the second season of “For All Mankind” on Apple-Plus, I keep asking the same question: What happened to us? By us, I mean U....

Can you call someone a friend if you haven’t seen him in 40 years? On Monday, I heard the news of the death of my old friend David. He suf...

Happy 420 Day.  Stoners in Boulder, Colo., used to treat this day as a smoke-filled holiday, known for one of the biggest 420 fests in the...

The Colorado Sun reposted this piece by Jason Blevins in the Outsider newsletter: The Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes  plans to return t...

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...

It's not Flashback Friday or Throwback Thursday, but we are venturing back eight years to the Democratic National Convention in Denver. ...

This photo by renowned photog and my college housemate Bob Page shows ritualistic behavior in collegians circa 1975. In the mid-70s, it wa...

When I left the dog-eat-dog arena of corporate America in 1988 for the ivy-covered halls of academe, I imagined a long life of teaching and...

As of July 1, hitchhiking is legal in Wyoming. And just in time for the summer travel season. This new law came out of a need for skiers...

A few days ago, I mourned the loss of poet and poetry promoter Kurt Brown. His latest book was a look back at Aspen in its heyday, “Lost She...