May 29th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Continuing my pledge to honor the memory of John F. Kennedy on his birthdate, which I share with him, rather than on the day he was assassinated.
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May 29th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
A birthday gift some 60 years in the making.
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May 26th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Trump had a perfect setting to deliver a personal message of inspiration to the graduating cadets at West Point. He failed miserably.
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May 22nd, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
A poem about rain.
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May 21st, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
We’re big in this country on designating special months and days for special causes, but I don’t think mental health awareness should go away on June 1 for another year.
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May 18th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
Praying for a Reverse Rapture is kind of a holy way to say, “Go to Hades.” Isn’t it?
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May 14th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
“I don’t know,” has become Donald Trump’s go to answer for any question concerning the Constitution . Other times he just doesn’t say it. RFK Junior, on the other hand, knows everything. Just ask him.
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May 11th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
A daily dose of the day’s news growing up had a subtle, but profound, impact on my life.
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May 9th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
An American pope now has a voice and a pulpit to challenge that of Donald Trump and an audience that is arguably farther reaching.
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May 8th, 2025
By Bob Gaydos
They are here. The birds. You know, the tiny ones that hum.
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