Author Archives: Richard Guzman
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
Reflections on a Political Loss
It has taken me a while for me to write anything at all, but on the afternoon of April 10th I wrote this to a few colleagues who had been supporting Rick Guzman’s run for Aurora mayor: “By now you … Continue reading