June 14, 2008 CHULA VISTASTUDENTS LEARN MEANING OF WORD by David BerlinCopyright San Diego Union-Tribune Publishing Company When teacher Greg Gutierrez realized his students didn’t know the meaning of the word “prejudice,” he decided to show them. Gutierrez took his ninth-grade English class to the Holocaust Museum in Los AngelesContinue Reading

July/August 2009Carlsbad MagazineCarving Out a Life on Paper and on Waves by Tim Grenda It’s been 45 years, but Greg Gutierrez can still remember in vivid detail the precise moment he realized that he wanted to be a surfer. It was 1964. Gutierrez was 5, and his family had traveledContinue Reading

ZEN and the art of SurfingReview by Lyle E. Davis in The Paper, San Diego Somewhere in high school I was taught that the hardest composition to write was the short story. It’s true. To tell a story and tell it both briefly and yet completely is a task fewContinue Reading

The Surfer’s Journal www.surfersjournal.com2006, Volume Fifteen, Number FiveZen and the Art of Surfing Book Review: Steve Pezman School of Hard KnocksZen and the Art of Surfing: A Collection of Short Stories by Greg Gutierrez,published through a grant from the Julian Paz Foundation. Gutierrez’s exuberant outpourings (his paintings list for 15Continue Reading