Robert Gerard Hunt (RGH) combs his archives to bring you timeless autobiographical stories and quirky works of fiction covering a variety of topics. Often humorous, sometimes deeply moving, and always thought-provoking, RGH combines his unique perspective with a warm vocal performance that adds furt…
One boy’s creativity is another’s suffering. ( A TRUE STORY)
A Holy Day miracle. Too bad he couldn’t enjoy it. (A MADE-UP STORY)
Rediscovering the heart of a taciturn grandfather.
The metric system was supposed to be fully implemented in the United States by now. What happened? (COMMENTARY)
Be careful what you promise your children. (A TRUE STORY)
Gun-toting apes or a magic transformer? An impossible choice. (A TRUE STORY)
A rookie nurse encounters a mysterious old man. (A MADE-UP STORY)
RGH’s great aunt was very unsophisticated – and very happy. (A TRUE STORY)
Two creative souls perpetually out of sync. (A TRUE STORY)
Sometimes our senses of sight and taste don’t see eye-to-eye. (A TRUE STORY).
RGH attempts to purge his speech of cringe-worthy dialect. (A TRUE STORY)
RGH reveals how to derive maximum enjoyment from watching television. (AN ESSAY)
Might “It’s a Wonderful Life” be the best movie ever made? RGH thinks so.
For RGH, the lunch break was just as trying as the rest of the school day. (A TRUE STORY)
Intimidation, mind games, and cut-throat Intellivision competition. (A TRUE STORY)
Freedom on a recumbent three-wheeler. (A TRUE STORY)
The inevitable nadir of our nation’s biggest shopping day. (A MADE-UP STORY)
That sinking feeling when you know you’re about to die. (A TRUE STORY)
A humbling reckoning on the Outer Banks. (A TRUE STORY)
Trawling for candy one last time. (A MADE-UP STORY)
A transformative experience with the art of James Turrell. (A TRUE STORY)
Did RGH really take a dive in the school spelling bee? (A TRUE STORY)
It takes a prison to make RGH play left field. (A TRUE STORY)
Sometimes it just makes sense to bleed in the living room. (A TRUE STORY)
They wrote songs together. They laughed a lot. Their friendship was doomed from the start. (A TRUE STORY)
What was it like to live inside Ohio Stadium? RGH tells all. (A TRUE STORY)
RGH’s bold and brilliant illicit plan goes awry. (A TRUE STORY)
Prestidigitation, the introverted boy’s rite of passage. (A TRUE STORY)
Film school photography, good and bad. (A TRUE STORY)
A bit of father-and-son heaven at the end of our street. (A TRUE STORY)
Staring down the tyranny of audience participation. (A TRUE STORY)
Heaven was a quarter in the age of the five-ball pinball machine. (A TRUE STORY)
A new house and an incorrigible puppy. Two things that should never be acquired in quick succession. (A TRUE STORY)
From instant fame to humiliating failure, all in one month. (A TRUE STORY)
What do Bugs Bunny, taking a bath, and a precocious vocabulary have in common? (A TRUE STORY)
What counted as delinquency for those under the cassock and surplice. (A TRUE STORY)
The Hardee Boys investigate apocalyptic prophecy. (A MADE-UP STORY)
Crude. Irreverent. Sexist. Riding in his trash truck was the best part of RGH’s summer job. (A TRUE STOY)
What if we could bank, sell, or buy our sleep? (A MADE-UP STORY)
RGH wanted to quit his music instruction. So did his teacher. (A TRUE STORY)
A harrowing encounter at Harpers Ferry, unexpected expenses, and justly punctured pride. (A TRUE STORY)
With brotherhood, from C to shining C. Among the indignities that Brian suffered during his teenage years, accompanying his kid brother to our piano lessons must have been one of the most painful. The eight years that separate us were a vast chasm in those days, and we had little in common beyond our genetics and..Read more
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