2013 Columns Archive Stories

This week, CORE at the Camptonville Academy students are in for a little change of pace. We are going from around 200 horsepower back to 1846 and two Clydesdale horsepower at Sutter's Fort in downtown Sacramento. This is one of the greatest field trips of all time. Only a few select schools are allowed to participate in the Environmental

Change is painful. You have to take something you have thought of as right for maybe years and rearrange it to match truth. Or maybe you have to take an unwanted habit or action captive, then dissect it and figure out how you can change it becoming a better person for it. Yet people resist change. They want to come through the process and be a b

"The Hobbit" film isn't for the faint of heart or queasy of spirit. As I watched it for the second time, I was hit by an awesome scene with the wizard Gandalf the Grey and Galadriel, queen of the Lothlorien elves. Galadriel asks, "Why the Halfling?" Gandalf replies, "Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, bu