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...

They are tiny figures on the outside sandbar, straddling their surfboards, heads bobbing up with each oncoming wave, and then obscured again...

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...

Fate had other ideas. We couldn’t sell our house in a down market as hundreds of other Apollo pioneers were trying to do. My father reported...

Hurricane Dora hit a couple weeks into the new school year. The lead story in that morning’s News-Journal featured an illustration of a swi...

Over 400,000 people worked on the Apollo Program. – From the end credits of Richard Linklater’s Netflix film “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Child...

Lorna of the luxurious brown hair. The first time I saw her. Not a streak of grey in it. I knew it wouldn't last because she's right...

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....

Not enough people have seen "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." It's satire, sure, with a ...

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...

All this book-banning makes me think of all of those books I read that might meet disapproval now from the GOP Know Nothings.  When I was in...

Angel Kisses The sun’s first ray taps the crown of my head. I’m the tallest creature on the ocean, me, a young man bobbing just outside of...

I was a bit shocked to find out that the Saturday Evening Post was still alive and celebrating its 200th anniversary. I know the Post from m...

An April issue of UK’s Autocar featured the Renault Dauphine in its list of "22 Totally Charming Cars."  It showed a still life p...

I tried to write a piece about the massacre of 10 innocents at the King Soopers in Boulder. Few subjects make me speechless but mass shootin...

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 like to think that I was a witness to history during Moon Landing Week in July 1969. I witnessed the launch from the beach the morning o...