Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

(Continued from Jan. 13) I spend a lot of time at Malcolm Fraser’s “The Soul Escaping Death” painting flanked by a framed spread of many m...

What makes a 49-year-old artist abandon his paints and go to war? That’s the question I pondered when visiting the Ormond Memorial Art Mus...

June 1966. My boss asked me why I was drilling a hole so close to the frothing ocean. High tide coming, boy. Looking for bananafish, I said,...

I was gobsmacked by an historical novel written about a famous author’s experiences in World War II. “Sergeant Salinger” by Jerome Charyn ...

World War 1’s Meuse-Argonne offensive began on Sept. 26, 1918, and halted with the announcement of the Armistice on Nov. 11. It was the larg...

Some negative reviews have come in for Netflix's remake of  "All Quiet on the Western Front." They all say the same thing, tha...

A remembrance for what once was called Armistice Day and now Veteran’s Day. My paternal grandfather, Raymond Arthur Shay, enlisted in the ...

The mental health of veterans is tied to the mental health of civilians. I am not a veteran.  I am a civilian with mental health issues. D...

It only took me 31 years to get around to reading "In Country" by Bobbie Ann Mason. Published in 1985, the book explores post-Vi...

Here's an update on tomorrow's Flag Day fund-raiser in Cheyenne. I have it on good authority that Uncle Sam (or someone who looks a...

I'm on a committee with the Laramie County Democrats Grassroots Organization that stages fund-raisers for for Dem candidates, mainly lo...

Author Starley Talbott Thompson posted this item on the Wyoming Writers, Inc. , Facebook page: Lee Alley, Wyoming veteran and author of ...

On Thursday evening, CNN's "The Sixties" aired its segment on the Vietnam War. In real time in Washington, D.C., Vietnam War ...

An Iraq War veteran with PTSD was the first in line to purchase pot this morning in Colorado, according to a story on NBC News Online. ...

These three photos come from The Atlantic magazine's series of photo essays commemorating the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasio...

I'm always a bit dubious when a new novel is compared to Catch-22 or M*A*S*H or is labeled "definitive." However, I am alw...

--> From Nov. 5-9, the Combat Paper Project is teaming up with the Colorado State University Veterans Organization right down the...

Wyoming MoveOn member Josh Kronberg sent this: Dear Wyoming MoveOn member, All over Wyoming we see public support for our troops oversea...

WyoDems Communications Director and long-time Wyoming reporter and editor Brodie Farquhar posted this on Facebook: Today's Casper ...

Marjorie Morrison is the author of the recently published "The Inside Battle: Our Military Mental Health Crisis" (Military Psych...