Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

I get depressed thinking about the new state budget cuts. It's not clinical depression. More like a short-term funk brought on by knuckl...

Me and my Peugeot, back in the day. Bob Page photo. Happy Cheyenne Bike Week . That's "bike" as in bicycle. Bike Week as...

This photo by renowned photog and my college housemate Bob Page shows ritualistic behavior in collegians circa 1975. In the mid-70s, it wa...

As a proud Baby Boomer parent of two Millennials, I am pleased to offer my services as a workplace consultant. According to a report last we...

62 out of 75. Democrats are running in 62 of the 75 legislative races this year. This may be the most Dems throwing their hats in the ri...

All Democratic Party gatherings tend to draw bigger crowds during presidential election years. That is especially true when the race is a h...

Funny things happen when you're asked to write about writing. You learn stuff about your own work. Lynn Carlson at Writing Wyoming as...

You'd think that the sprawling parking lot at the Little America Conference Center would be spacious enough for all of the comic book ge...

Happy May Day! While many of you bask in May sunshine, we are buried in snow. A moisture-laden three-day snowstorm covered my lawn and gar...

Symbol for the opioid formerly known as Oxycodone. News of Prince's death rocked music fans. I'm not a big Prince fan, but do ad...

Yes, it's supposed to snow buckets this weekend. Winter storm Vexo may prove to be vexing here in Cheyenne and all along the Front Rang...

It seems as if I've read hundreds of critiques about M.F.A. writing programs over the years. They usually fall into two camps. No. 1: I...

Know anyone from North Korea? I don't. But I feel that I do now, after reading Adam Johnson';s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ...

The Rolling Stones rock Havana today. The Western World's Capitalist Songsters in one of the last bastions of international communism. U...

I have a decade-long history on Blogger. This can be a bad thing, as I can still see some of my more embarrassing writing and photographic m...

Some of you may be wondering what hummingbirdminds thinks of the current election cycle. OK, maybe you don't, but hummingbirdminds is ...

House Minority Leader Mary Throne addresses the "Get Your Green On" Democrats about some of  the Republican craziness that tran...

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

A typical St. Patrick's Day celebration in Cheyenne What do you think of when St. Patrick's Day rolls around? Toasting your ...

My mother loved Pat Conroy's novel "The Great Santini." "Why can't you write like that?" she asked, a challeng...