Author: Janet Miller

It’s fair time! The Merced County Spring Fair in Los Banos is from April 30 through May 4. While there are many amazing exhibits and activities, youth animal projects are a main component of the fair. Animal sales provide an...

If Easter seems later this year, it is. According to ancient tradition, Easter cannot be celebrated until we have the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Christians around the world celebrate the resurrection of Jesus...

Most of us are aware of the Chicken Little fairytale. This time-told story has many similar versions. The basics and moral teachings remain the same.          Chicken Little gets hit...

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...