Hookversary 2026 This year’s anniversary of Hook’s passing was spent walking the oceanside beaches of Sandy Hook near the Atlantic Highlands of New Jersey from North Beach to buck-naked Gunnison Beach to the Southern Beaches E, D, C, B, A. In his high school and college summers of the 1970s, Allan Hook was a lifeguard … Continue reading Sandy Hook Beach in New Jersey
Hookversary 2025: Part II
I had to catch a train into Manhattan from Mamaroneck, New York, where I am cat sitting a lovable senior named Archie. But I would have had to do a Part II no matter what, because that first post was already long enough. Click on Hookversary 2025 - Part I to catch up or continue … Continue reading Hookversary 2025: Part II
Long Live the Hook Jeep: Hookversary 2025
The Hook Jeep from a photo shoot just before the 2020 Pandemic. Look how gorgeous she is! When I took the stage at the Paramount Theatre in Austin for the Moth’s Mainstage event, the Master of Ceremonies (MC) introduced each storyteller by sharing what our third greatest fear was: "Our first storyteller for tonight said … Continue reading Long Live the Hook Jeep: Hookversary 2025
Thanksgivings of My Youth
There was a circus-like energy of innocence and joy that surrounded the Guzman holidays. Throughout my childhood and right up until I went away to college, I lived for our Thanksgiving dinners which always began the day before on Wednesday. Rushing home from school, I opened the front door and inhaled the aroma of deep-fried … Continue reading Thanksgivings of My Youth
Do You Remember?
September 3rd marked Year 11 since Hook “took flight on the wings of a wasp to another place and time.” That’s a closing line from a story, The Nature Walk, that I’ve told on stage about Hook and me, about how he got me to fall in love with him on our third date. (More … Continue reading Do You Remember?
Hookversary 2023
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing. - S.A., Author Love and Choice. Let’s talk about both of those things on this, the 10-year Hookversary, the anniversary of Hook’s passing from this life into some unknown. Choice is what I forgot to … Continue reading Hookversary 2023
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