Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Thank the nurse that’s nursing you For saving your life. For saving your life. For saving your life. That’s the end of “Thank the Nu...

(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...

Odd in 2022 to be rooting for an underdog European country against a maniacal dictator bent on war. Seems like 1939. Not that I experience...

We live in absurd times. A Reality TV show star is president. He is a narcissist who is never wrong about anything but is wrong about everyt...

In times like these, we need a guy like Herbert Hoover. Hoover has long been a joke for his poor performance in reacting to the Great Depr...

Every so often, I pick up a book that I can't put down. "The Winter Soldier" by Daniel Mason is one of them. I hadn't hear...

"That's some catch, that Catch-22.  "It's the best there is." Those lines stuck in my head in 1969 and never left...

The war was World War I or The Great War, as it was known before there was a second installment to worldwide slaughter. In the village of Ry...

1916 cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman, via National Archive Berryman collection. Not sure if the Uncle Sam of 2018 can jump the massive wal...

From "Divine Ammunition" at the UW Art Museum: Al Farrow,  Trigger Finger of Santo Guerro , guns, gun parts, bullets, shell cas...

The New York Times reports that sales of "old-fashioned print books" are up for the third year in a row, based on figures from th...

From CNN Online on Oct. 23: Americans should anticipate more military operations in Africa as the war on terrorism continues to morph, S...

In a July 26 post , I responded to President Trump's disturbing speech to the Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia. There was a riotous...

Did U.S. Army General and Supreme Allied Commander of Operation Overlord (and later president) Dwight D. Eisenhower ever go ever go to a Boy...

I'm too old and jaded to be a fanboy. Maybe that's why I dislike standard comic book hero movies. They're like fireworks displ...

It takes skill to pull off an epistolary novel. That's one of the reasons I was so impressed by "The Guernsey Literary and Potato P...

If he were still alive, Kurt Vonnegut might have attended the science march near him this weekend. New York City will probably have a big on...

What do I keep? What do I recycle? What do I throw away? The questions of spring cleaning. Over the weekend, I vowed to clean up my writ...