Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

I’ve been recovering from heart surgery since Feb. 16. It was Valentine’s Day Week and it seemed like a good time for it. Heart surgery has ...

Daughter Annie has been chronicling her graduation experience on her blog . She graduated from Laramie County Community College on May 14 an...

We move our lives indoors as frost and snow shuts down another outdoor growing season in Cheyenne. Yesterday, I plucked all of my tomatoes a...

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...

I am a lineman for the county... In the late-60s, I loved that Jimmy Webb song, a chart-topper for Glen Campbell. It's a fine song. An...

The Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Telemetry Lab staffer called me Friday. She wanted to know how I was doing. I said "fine" but...

Funny how surgery can throw you for a loop. Fifteen days ago, I had a knee replaced. Pulled the 1950 chassis into the OR, went to sleep an...

They story had me at the first line: In many parts of Wyoming, it’s impossible to get mental health care. Darn near impossible in rural a...

I get my implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) on Monday. It's an ingenious little gadget, weighing only 70 grams and 12.9 mm thi...

Did you know that if you're older than 60, docs don't want your bone marrow? I found that out by perusing the web site for the Be...

Writer Amanda Cabot sends this reminder: If you're interested in self-publishing, either in e-book or print-on-demand format, you ...

The U.S. Census Bureau shows that Casper is the eighth fastest growing metro area in the U.S. while Cheyenne is number twenty. Some Natrona ...

Amazing stuff. This 3-D printing technology may be an immediate threat to manufacturers but what about artists and crafters? Our work may ...

Science! It's a gas -- biogas, that is. The City of Cheyenne and UW and Microsoft and Fuel Cell Energy Inc. are building a pilot project...

Microsoft's Gregg McKnight was in Cheyenne today talking about a pilot project for a new kind of data center. He was a speaker at the f...

American Bison at Utah's Hogle Zoo The following comes from a University of Wyoming press release that appeared on Friday. It ta...

Two building dedications take place during the next two weeks in Laramie County. They point the way toward a future that local Know Nothings...

A few weeks ago, a commenter on these pages made a snide comment about my brain. I am as capable of taking snide comments as I am in dishi...

This is a great idea for a rural state (Wyoming) which has high risk factors for suicide, domestic violence and substance abuse -- and one t...

I didn't see "Cheyenne" or "Wyoming" flash on this building but maybe next time... Here's what this is all ab...