Author Archives: Richard Guzman
Climbing Bryan’s Mountain, 2010
This post is part of a series consisting of excerpts from a journal I keep reflecting on loss, healing, change, and other adventures, usually during the few summer weeks I spend in Sedona, AZ. Links to the LEAD POST and to Emmanuel House—an organization started by … Continue reading
The Five-Year Engagement: Just Believe!
In The Five-Year Engagement Tom (Jason Segel) and Violet (Emily Blunt) have put off their marriage for career reasons, broken up, gotten involved with others, but finally give in to what seems an inevitable love. In one of the movie’s … Continue reading
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Sterling Plumpp salutes Von Freeman
Von Freeman, one of Chicago’s titanic tenors, passed away this August, and his passing brought to mind the most beautiful lines ever written about him: “Be-Bop is precise clumsiness. Awkward lyricism under a feather’s control. A world in a crack. … Continue reading →