Cadet Trump Flunks the Mission

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.

The Rainy Season

May 22nd, 2025

By Bob Gaydos
A poem about rain.

Ring the Bell for Mental Health

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.

On Praying for a Reverse Rapture

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?

On Being in the ‘Know’ in D.C.

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.

Thanks, Mom, for My Career

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.

Holy Smoke! A Woke Pope?

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.

They’ve Come … the Birds That Hum

May 8th, 2025

By Bob Gaydos
They are here. The birds. You know, the tiny ones that hum.

Pope Donald and Other ‘News’

May 3rd, 2025

By Bob Gaydos
Starting the day with the “you’ve got to be kidding me” news.

Donald Dozes, the Media Say So What?

April 28th, 2025

By Bob Gaydos
There he is front and center, all in shiny blue, chin dropped to his chest, eyes comfortably closed, mouth dropped wide open. At the funeral of the pope.