By Bob Gaydos
Everyday life is full of amazing things, if only one looks. Watermelon, the order of numbers, how horses see. Who thought of these things?

By Bob Gaydos
Life is full of unwritten rules. Baseball has a bunch of them. I’m writing some of them down. One of them is, in sports, politics and life, don’t be a sore loser.

By Bob Gaydos
Even veteran journalists can find it mind-numbing to report on chaos every day. Witness Maureen Dowd and David Brooks of The New York Times recently. Maybe take a short break, folks.

By Bob Gaydos
The voices in my newspapers are all gone. What remains is the conviction that a writer must remain true to his or her self first. Trust your voice. Trust your opinion. It seems I am in search of some new voices to read.

By Bob Gaydos
As a fish rots from the head down, so has the GOP. Their leader is a bully, a liar and a misogynist and they know it. Rather than rise up in moral indignation, they have chosen for nearly four years to emulate or remain silent.

By Bob Gaydos
Major change sometimes requires major pain. America may be experiencing that in coming to terms with its true history. The universe demands harmony. And Donald Trump Is helping us find it.

By Bob Gaydos
They’re starting to play baseball this month. Also, there has been a dramatic shift in the way Americans view the use of force by police. This is good news, for the front page as well as the back page.

By Bob Gaydos
The week was a showcase for the now-familiar traits that define Trump — arrogance, laziness, pride, litigiousness, ignorance and callous disregard for anyone other than himself.

By Bob Gaydos
There’s a lot of pain and anger in the world right now. Also, an appalling lack,of responsible leadership by those elected to,provide it. So we are left to our own devices. Generosity. Sharing. Compassion. Small gestures. All we need do is notice.

By Bob Gaydos
In the film, “Minority Report,” pre-cogs predict future crimes for police. In real life, pre-conditioning does much the same for crimes by police. Time may have finally caught up to the latter.