What teacher has been a vegetarian since 1966?
Blaze Newman
Blaze has gone meatless for almost half a century. When questioned about her drive for such a life style, her response was, “Charlotte’s...
We’ve all seen it. Floating in the corners of our vision. Hiding in nonsense. But, how many of us have actually stopped and asked the ultimate question: what in the world are “Wingdings”?
Unfortunately,...
Claire Brady
Can you describe your rock climbing? How often do you do it for? Where do you do it?
I rock climb at minimum twice a week, but usually more. I have had weeks were I climb every single...
“I am dorkily excited that there are kids that already recognize that they want to be writers,” keynote speaker Kristin Elizabeth Clark starts the fourth annual Canyon Crest Academy Writers Conference,...
Romeo and Juliet meets aliens in The CW’s new series, “Star-Crossed” (get it? get it?).
The year is 2024 and 10 years ago aliens crashed landed onto Earth. We humans, being reasonable beings,...
There are times when I walk out of our Encinitas Library, fumbling with the door handle around my armful of books, DVDs, and a stray CD, wondering, “How on earth can this be legal?” There are places...
Dissociative Book Identity Disorder /dɪˈsoʊʃitɪv bʊk aɪˈdentəti dɪsˈɔrdər/: A state of mind where a person has multiple, dueling memories of a single book.
This newly-discovered psychological...
We’ve seen oodles of werewolves, vampires, shapeshifters, and ghosts. Oodles of boring. But every once and a while, when drowning in the death pool that is free eBooks, you’ll run across the more obscure...
Dear Knowledgeable Katrina,
I’m at a family event and desperately want to finish my amazing book so I can catch up with everyone! But everyone keeps interrupting to ask what I’m reading! This way,...
The year is 2048 and the world has barely changed. Sure, there are robots and some no-longer-impressive hologram computers but, past that, imagine our world. Place inside that world your average “cop...
At the Nov. 13 Forum about 30 people battled the ever-present question: How can we use spirit to improve SDA?
The Spirit Sprint
“All of our sports teams should feel appreciated and supported by...
We have common courtesies for everything from “Bless you” at a sneeze to how long to open the door for someone behind you. Soon your whole life will be consumed with pushing in chairs and pulling them...
Once upon a time there was a television show that explored an original plot and pushed its limits. This is not that show.
So we have Alice (little known actor, Sophie Lowe) in a mental institution....
In space no one can hear you scream.
In this thriller, a team of three astronauts suffer and deal with the aftermath of a catastrophic event as they struggle to get back to Earth. Which, as you can...
So we’ve heard about the “philes” that get you arrested like pedo and necro, the ones that get you shanked in prison. But the phile prefix really just means love. If you love something, why not declare...
So we've all been asked “The Question:” the “Where are you going/What will you be doing/Who will you be” question. May it be from parents, teachers, friends, foes, uncles, grandmothers or strangers...
Remember the years when all the close movie theaters closed and all the movies sucked? When the plots weren’t interesting, the lines not funny, and the 3D just in-your-face? Well, that was just the calm...
Such taglines do not a good book make.
Finding a best seller goes past asking the local bookstore what books are off the shelves since one can buy physical or electronic books from Amazon, Half, Alibris,...
