Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

How did the Dominican sisters think I could understand an Emily Dickinson poem, "I could not stop for death?" Sister Miriam Cath...

She’s pretty but doesn’t know it yet or maybe she does, maybe her new spouse told her that this morning before she hustled off to a new job....

  Photos of the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home Museum  in Savannah (building in center). It was closed to visitors on the day we were ...

Crash Grief clouded my sight and I rear-ended the van bearing biopsies Bound for the cancer lab, one of them snipped From my wife. T...

Just when I think I’ve read every World War Two-era novel…. “Clark and Division” by Naomi Hirahara brings us into the life of Aki Ito. She...

“The Paris Apartment” by Kelly Bowen is the second book recommended on the Historical Fiction Book Lovers Facebook site to take me back to F...

I participate in the Historical Fiction Book Lovers site on Facebook. I have discovered some real gems set in the 1920s suggested by members...

I’m reading “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah . It’s the story of two sisters in a small French village occupied by the Nazis. The elder s...

The cover of Jane Campbell's story collection, "Cat Brushing," shows a ringed hand sweeping across the fur of what must be a v...

Lisa See's latest novel, The Island of Sea Women , could have been set on a distant world. On a little known volcanic island , women hav...

Russia invaded Ukraine this week. Putin does not want a democracy on its border. The Ukrainians are fighting back. The U.S. knows what joini...

I was a bit shocked to find out that the Saturday Evening Post was still alive and celebrating its 200th anniversary. I know the Post from m...

Great article in the Nov. 12 edition of Flatwater Free Press:  How a 101-year-old linked to Willa Cather altered a small town's future. ...

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

"La Petite Fadette" is a novel by George Sand published in 1849. I'm reading it now after watching a 1915 silent film, "F...

After reading Kristen Arnett's recent New York Times essay, "Florida women are no joke. I should know," I wanted to go out a...

It's no news that suburban malls are dying. Young people avoid their manufactured atmospheres. Families may go into the multiplex to see...

My wife, Chris Shay, shows off her Women's March T-shirt. I just finished reading thoughtful columns by two male residents of Wyomin...

The Women's March Wyoming is set for 10 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 20, in Cheyenne. Gather at the Depot Plaza, march to the State Capito...

Last year, the day after the presidential inauguration was a lot more interesting than the inauguration itself. The inaugural Women's ...