Article Archives: Bumps in the Night

Bobbie the Wonder Dog

January 11, 2018 | by Al Hunter

I can’t think of a better way to kick off 2018 than with a good old fashioned dog story.  The story of Bobbie the wonder dog. Bobbie’s “tail” begins during a family visit to Wolcott, Indiana. This tiny town of 1,000 owes its genesis to being the last stop of … Read More

What’s the Matter with Minnesota?

January 4, 2018 | by Al Hunter

Al Franken resigned this week. The Democratic Senator from Minnesota left office under a cloud of sexual misconduct accusations that surfaced in the autumn of last year. It was the end of a fairy-tale career by the former Saturday Night Live comedian who first came to Washington DC after a … Read More

Christmas Ghosts

December 21, 2017 | by Al Hunter

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve discussed three of my literary obsessions (Charles Dickens, Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe) and their connection to each other this time of the year. While the airwaves will be filled with marathon showings of It’s a Wonderful Life and Ralphie’s A Christmas … Read More

Ebenezer Scrooge in America

December 7, 2017 | by Al Hunter

There’s a movie out in theatres right now that I think I would like to see. That is a rare event in the Hunter household (the last one we saw was Daniel Day Lewis’s Lincoln five years ago). The Man Who Invented Christmas came out Thanksgiving weekend. It scored 83 … Read More

Charles Manson – Hoosier Juvenile Delinquent

November 30, 2017 | by Al Hunter

The world became a happier place last Sunday when news came that California cult leader Charles Manson had died in prison. If there was anything to be sad about Manson’s passing, it was that he died of natural causes, a luxury that most who crossed his path were never afforded. … Read More