By Mary Friedel-Hunt

I started this column on the night of Dec. 14, the day of the worst elementary school shooting in the history of our country. It is replacing the one I had planned to run today because I can’t think of a better way to start a new year than to pay tribute to those who died at Sandy Hook in Connecticut today and to hope we take actions in 2013 to change the culture that allows these school shootings to occur.