Author: Janet Miller

As I sit down for this week’s column, I cannot get out of my head the well-known line from T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land.” He penned, “April is the cruelest month.” In the Midwest where Eliot was raised, April was a muddy...

It was not until I experienced a near disaster that I feared the possible danger of rechargeable batteries. Last summer I was given a personal rechargeable fan and soon appreciated why we hear many battery warnings. I plugged in...

“These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman,.”...