Author Archives: Richard Guzman
Climbing Bryan’s Mountain, 2019
This is part of a series of journal excerpts reflecting on loss, healing, change, and other adventures, usually during the few summer weeks I spend in Sedona, AZ. The journal revolves around the loss of my youngest son, Bryan Emmanuel Guzman, and the mountain … Continue reading
U.S. Returns Balangiga Bells
The VIDEO below from The World Tonight * reports on the return from the U.S. to the Philippines of the Balangiga Bells, one of the most infamous symbols of the Philippine-American War, which raged brutally from 1899 to 1902. After … Continue reading
Black Writers Picture Themselves – Part 2
Burt Britton’s 1976 book Self-Portrait: Book People Picture Themselves contains nearly 750 self-portraits of writers and actors, from Edward Abbey (A) to Paul Zweig (Z). It all started when Britton, then tending bar in New York, tried to get a … Continue reading