Author Archives: Richard Guzman

Remembering Nancy Kirby

Recently, after a two-year battle with cancer which she faced with uncommon grace, we lost a former colleague, Nancy Kirby, who taught journalism at North Central College for 20 years.  She stabilized what had been an up-and-down program, turning it into a consistent … Continue reading

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Sedona, the Movie: Vortexes, Auras! Oh, My!

Sedona, Arizona, is stunningly beautiful—“The most beautiful city in America,” USA Travel called it—but also beset by an often distracting New Age loopiness. “You know what?” a local psychic tells the frazzled main character in the movie Sedona, “You need … Continue reading

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“Neckties”

        — for Raja Rao   A thousand years old at birth, he kicked up the dust of Vedic sages wherever he walked. The molecules of air they had exhaled swarmed to him like gnats. He breathed … Continue reading

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