Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

The Smithsonian exhibit, "The Way We Worked," arrives in Cheyenne later this month. I thought about my jobs during 55 years, from ...

I laughed when I saw the cover of the Aug./Sept. issue of AARP: The Magazine. Over a Peter Max original illustration was the header: "...

BBC just featured a story about "The Great Dungeons & Dragons Panic of the 1980s." For our family, it was "The Great Du...

When Rodger McDaniel writes about mental health and substance abuse treatment in Wyoming, he knows his subjects. Under Gov. Dave Freudenthal...

Wyoming ACLU tracking anti-choice bill in Wyoming House. The right-wing whackadoodles are at it again. Read more at  http://acluwyomingchapt...

With Wyoming Tea Party Republican legislators refusing to step up for our children on so many issues – early childhood education, health car...

UPLIFT Executive Director Peggy Nickell was interviewed for the latest edition of Wyoming Kids First. We're all hoping that the State o...

The University of Wyoming Counseling Center hosts its fourth annual Higher Education Mental Health and Substance Abuse Summit March 30-31 ...

I'm pleased to have my work included in Easy to Love but Hard to Raise, a book from DRT Press set for an October release. Editors are A...

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, ...

From Fox News : U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis said Friday that some of her Wyoming constituents are so worried about the reinstatement of federa...

Wyoming teens still engage in risky behavior. That’s not really news for teens living anywhere or at any time. I must admit that I engaged...

Writer Lauren Myracle spoke about "Peace, Love & Freedom" tonight at LCCC's Bill and Marietta Dineen Writers Series. Laure...

This trailer is from a documentary by Laramie's Chris Hume.

My wife Chris and I attended a funeral yesterday for Charles, one of my son's best friends from high school. I will use just his first n...

This evening I attended the open house at my daughter Annie's high school, Cheyenne Central. The wily administrators schedule the event ...

Jesse Kornbluth wrote in HuffPost today about Dave Cullen's new book, "Columbine." To read the column, go to http://www.huffin...

Wyoming received mixed messages today from national organizations. We all know how distressing mixed messages can be. Makes you want to go o...

The daily newspaper was invented for this. On Feb. 1, the Omaha World-Herald published a long article, "Safe Haven kids finally got ri...

We’ve been hearing a lot about Nebraska’s safe haven law. Thirty-four children -- mostly teens -- have been abandoned in the state since mid...