Author Archives: Richard Guzman
Homelessness and Me
I have never been close to being homeless. I’ve worked in homeless shelters for over 30 years, though, first at Hesed House in Aurora, and now for over 15 years coordinating my church’s homeless program at the Daybreak Shelter in … Continue reading
Climbing Up That Mountain
Below, a simple Video rendering of my song “Climbing Up That Mountain.” In church they’d call it a “choral anthem.” I worked on my doctorate at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from 1973 to 1977, attending the adjacent University … Continue reading
Mike Royko: Controversy…and the Cubs
When Mike Royko died in 1997, Chicago mourned. Granted, a few of the many people he confronted in his no-nonsense manner may have secretly celebrated, but his death was seen by many as the end of an era, when newspaper … Continue reading