• Read about Andi Wittwer on APG news. http://www.apg-wi.com/spooner_advocate/news/local/author-to-talk-about-let-the-secrets-die/article_a977a4bc-4514-11e6-b217-87618a468638.html Wittwer will introduce her new book, “Let the Secrets Die,” the first in the Jewell Johnson Mysteries series. She also will discuss the “family” next door, an important part of the series. Rural Wisconsin is a perfect place to “hide out.” Low population density, deep woods, swamps,…

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  • There’s No Honest Retail

    There’s No Honest Retail

    Are you a canny glove salesman?

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  • Define Character

    Character is what defines you as a human being. It’s what people see in you.  It’s what people will say about you when you turn your back or after you pass away.  Character is one of the most important things you have.  Do you invest in yours?  Do people see your faith in what you…

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  • “Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained by a righteous life.” Proverbs 16:20 I was downtown yesterday at the Fall Festival and a lady I saw had beautiful white hair, and she was so pretty and active! But the interesting thing is –  no, the INTRIGUING thing  – about her hair is…

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  • Because I Could Not Stop For Death   Emily Dickenson Since then – ‘tis Centuries – and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses’ Heads Were toward Eternity –       It is autumn, October- cool and impending rain. Jewell wakes up after the break in at the Inn, to find Abby…

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  • What, Me Worry?

    Do you worry excessively? That’s not healthy.

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  • The J J Mysteries

      In the spring of 1971, Jewell Johnson graduates from high school, and spends her summer at The Linger Inn, in Northern Wisconsin near Hayward. Her grandparents built up the lakeside bed and breakfast and their farm over many years–and now it hides many secrets. Jewell is the catalyst as the mystery in her family’s…

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  • SUNDAY MORNINGS, Picture by Theresa Kocha

    What do you do on Sunday morning?

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  • Am I White?

    Am I White?

    I sent my DNA spit-sample to Ancestry.com and discovered I am: I’m mostly white. That is, if the Western European percentage is still considered mostly white. I imagine they were swarthy. Some of my ancestors came from the Middle East…is that white or not? If not; then I am about two-thirds white. That is, my…

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  • History’s Little Mysteries

    History’s Little Mysteries

    One of the things I love about studying history is the sense of how interpretations are overlapped by time. So often what we think is “truth” is opinion, even when we are looking at “facts”. In my Jewell Johnson Mysteries I hope to recreate the past and then several possible interpretations. In book one, “Let…

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