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So far Sonoma Academy has created 114 blog entries.

Trouble in Yoga Pant Paradise

By Allison Ashley Customers take offense to companies’ description of desirable, yet unrealistic, clientele, causing extremely popular stores to lose business from their most loyal buyers: teenage girls. A girl can be spotted wearing Lululemon yoga pants from a mile away. Usually found in black and either cropped, tucked into [...]

By | December 10th, 2013|0 Comments

All About Service and Therapy Dogs

By Hannah Breall The Americans with Disabilities Act describes service dogs as any guide dog, signal dog, or other animal that is trained to give assistance to an individual with a disability. For example, some dogs are trained to pull wheelchairs, others are taught to alert to the sounds of [...]

By | December 10th, 2013|0 Comments

Bringing an International Flair to Campus

By Sydney Weil For years now, students have come from all around the world to study at Sonoma Academy. There are currently eight international students, seven of whom are from China and one who is from Switzerland. For some, this is their first year studying at SA or even in [...]

By | December 10th, 2013|0 Comments

Speech and Debate: The Gift of Gab

By Jake Lawson Speech and Debate. After reading that, you probably already don’t want to read this article, so if you read this sentence and/or plan to read the rest of this article, you’re pretty cool. Speech and Debate are fun and they’re not what you think! Okay, so I’m [...]

By | December 10th, 2013|0 Comments

Women Registering for Selective Service

By Allison Ashley As high school seniors approach the highly anticipated age of 18, they receive new freedoms. Now considered adults by the state, they obtain the right to vote and are able to buy cough syrup and spray paint. Along with this new freedom comes the responsibility of having [...]

By | November 4th, 2013|0 Comments

Movie Review: This Is the End

By JoJo Sanders Spoiler alert: in this comedic and sardonic take on the overplayed apocalypse genre, a few people die. On second thought, the entire human population dies, except for some actors-turned-cannibals-slash-sex-slaves, and James Franco. And a few others. To tell the truth, I was a little distracted by those [...]

By | November 4th, 2013|0 Comments

Connections to Syria

By Sierra Maciorowski 1,429 people have died from the use of chemical weapons in Syria - or, at least, that’s what US Secretary of State John Kerry says - and the conflict’s death total is more than 83,000. Yet those deaths, while important, are not the sole factor to consider [...]

By | November 4th, 2013|0 Comments

Decisions, Decisions

By Emmy O'Brien If asked at age eight what they want to be when they grow up, children will give you a “definite” answer. If asked again two days later, the answer will quite possibly be entirely different. Try asking the same question10 years later and a student will probably [...]

By | November 4th, 2013|0 Comments

Equestrian Team Gallops Onto Sonoma Academy Campus

By Sydney Weil There has almost always been a big horseback riding community on campus. Now, those riders have a way to gain experience in a team setting and be a part of the school athletic program. This fall marks the beginning of the new Sonoma Academy Equestrian Team, the [...]

By | November 4th, 2013|0 Comments

Book Review: Elsewhere–A Dreadful Beauty

By Sierra Maciorowski A childhood spent in Gloversville, the small town which would become the basis for Russo’s future writing endeavors; a young adulthood spent around the nation as his mother’s support and companion; and an adulthood keeping together both his mother’s life and his own... these are the components [...]

By | November 4th, 2013|0 Comments