by Michael Leppert | Jun 27, 2024 | Politics/Government
Life in Stephen King’s Shawshank State Prison is, at its best, mundane, repetitive and stagnant. As is the state of politics in Indiana. Surviving either or both, doesn’t require lightning to strike. It requires hope. Hope that can lead to a movement. Democrats in...
by Michael Leppert | Sep 8, 2022 | Politics/Government
Stephen King’s 1982 novella, “The Body,” was adapted into the award-winning, 1986 film, “Stand by Me.” There are significant differences between the two versions of the story, but both are primarily about friendship. It is a tale about Gordie LaChance, his friend,...
by Michael Leppert | Apr 10, 2020 | Pop/Life
It was Thanksgiving in 1980. It was the first one in my young memory that I would spend away from what had always been home in the coal mining hills of southwest Virginia. We had moved to Indiana three months earlier, and the 13-year-old version of me hated everything...
