Blogs and Feature Stories

Gifts, Gratitude, and Reciprocity

Gifts, Gratitude, and Reciprocity

Victoria Rydberg-Nania

Victoria Rydberg-Nania is co-owner of Feet Wet Writing, the publisher behind Jeff Nania’s Northern Lakes Mystery series, provides a guest blog as we reflect on 2024. Sometimes when I receive...

Gifts, Gratitude, and Reciprocity

Victoria Rydberg-Nania

Victoria Rydberg-Nania is co-owner of Feet Wet Writing, the publisher behind Jeff Nania’s Northern Lakes Mystery series, provides a guest blog as we reflect on 2024. Sometimes when I receive...

Jeff Nania standing next to Forest Lodge Library sign. Library director standing on other side.

Opening Doors to Adventure

Jeff Nania

I remember a young boy standing in line for the grand opening of a public library in Madison many years ago now. There must have been fifty people.   Most kids...

Opening Doors to Adventure

Jeff Nania

I remember a young boy standing in line for the grand opening of a public library in Madison many years ago now. There must have been fifty people.   Most kids...

Going Beyond the Story

Going Beyond the Story

Jeff Nania

Earlier this month, I traveled to the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire to talk with the students in Joel Pace’s English class about my first book, Figure Eight, which is used as...

Going Beyond the Story

Jeff Nania

Earlier this month, I traveled to the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire to talk with the students in Joel Pace’s English class about my first book, Figure Eight, which is used as...

Steel peavy head sitting on a plie of cut wood.

Do inanimate objects have stories to tell?

Jeff Nania

I am not a collector of antiques, but I have managed to accumulate some interesting and potentially useful old things along the way, almost always items that don’t eat and...

Do inanimate objects have stories to tell?

Jeff Nania

I am not a collector of antiques, but I have managed to accumulate some interesting and potentially useful old things along the way, almost always items that don’t eat and...

The Road Less Traveled

The Road Less Traveled

Jeff Nania

 One the greatest American poets that ever lived was born 149 years ago on March 26, 1874. Robert Lee Frost’s work was recognized during his life and beyond, including four...

The Road Less Traveled

Jeff Nania

 One the greatest American poets that ever lived was born 149 years ago on March 26, 1874. Robert Lee Frost’s work was recognized during his life and beyond, including four...

black and white image of Abraham Lincoln

Less is More

Jeff Nania

Democracy has been defined and redefined countless times, often the definition used will be to the best benefit of the speaker. On November 19, 1863 at the Soldiers National Cemetery...

Less is More

Jeff Nania

Democracy has been defined and redefined countless times, often the definition used will be to the best benefit of the speaker. On November 19, 1863 at the Soldiers National Cemetery...