Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Watched the last episode of "The Chair" this week. I laughed, I cried. Various faculty and administrators and students pissed me o...

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...

Aaron Abeyta This news comes from Wyoming Writers, Inc., WYO's statewide writing org: The Board of Wyoming Writers is excited to ...

Fiction must be very dangerous. Why else would parents and school officials be trying to censor Huckleberry Finn , The Scarlet Letter, an...

My two children had excellent music teachers in the Cheyenne schools. My daughter Annie was so smitten with music that she's now a vocal...

Democrats will have no problem with this one...

The Wyoming Public Employees Association (WPEA) , the union that represents Wyoming's public servants, has endorsed a slate of candidate...

Chris and I attended the "American Tapestry" concert this afternoon at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Cheyenne. Our daughter w...

Please join us for a Democratic Party education candidate house party for Misty Heil (LCCC Board), Nate Breen (LCSD#1) and Gary Datus (HD-4...

Author Pat Conroy has witnessed his books being challenged and banned  all over the country. Read a letter he wrote to the editor of the  ...

The Democratic Party has the wisdom to realize that activist nuns have a lot to teach its convention delegates. This news comes from NETWORK...

Civility Matters! So does poetry. Naomi Shihab Nye is "surprised by how kind people are when reciting and listening to poetry....

My two children were both served by Individualized Education Plans (I.E.P.) during their time in Laramie County School System No. 1. My son ...

To see what's coming Wyoming's way in the form of ALEC-sponsored "education" bills, read this story in The Progressive :  ...

Happy birthday to   Harry Crews.   He was one of my writing mentors during my time in Hogtown. He helped me look at fiction in new ways, an...

Marking the wrap-up of Wyoming Poetry Out Loud outside The Albany Tuesday. Pictured are (left to right) L.A. musician Peter Lewis, one of th...

Trio of WI supporters at WY State Capitol At the WY State Capitol with 100 of my closest friends On Wisconsin! Democratic Rep. Ke...

Great photo of gathering of workers in the Wisconsin People's House. Wyoming workers will be outside the Wyoming People's House toda...

Culled from this week's legislative report from the Wyoming Democrats : Patriotism in the classroom (HB 204):   Rep. Gerald Gay (R-Casp...

It was a week marked by savagery and bravery. A disturbed young man shoots 18 people in front of a Tucson grocery store. Six of them die, ...