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How could a kid who was labeled a "low-IQ" student in early grade school with virtually no chance of academic success, let alone success in business, pull off a miracle? How did he find a way out of the deep, dark cavern of depression and underachievement to realize the success that most people only dream of? Men who have experienced physical, mental, and sexual abuse are figuratively put in a straitjacket that deters success. The emotional scars experienced by adult children of alcoholics, and the addictive allure of pornography mixed with abuse, create a deadly elixir that destroys lives. This narrative is a "wake-up call" to the therapeutic community to create and design treatment programs to attack this syndrome that Jim has labeled the Trilogy Modum. James E. Crawford Jr. Esq. is a thirty-year experienced trial lawyer who has handled thousands of criminal sex offense cases in our court system. He has discovered hard-hitting facts as to why there is a tremendous increase in sex crimes and domestic violence in this country. Jim walks you through his own childhood struggles and the road he traveled to become an American lawyer. He gives you a "how-to" road map to find success in your own life and business. Although improbable, he ultimately realized his dream of standing next to a client with a fictitious sword in hand and using every tool he has developed as an attorney to protect and shield his clients. Underpinning his career and life, The American Lawyer is really about a father and son who desperately tried to connect and the journey to find the redemption they both grasped in the end.

In this short, but well written novel, Thomas Sieger shows the reader what has been happening to the small family dairy farm in Wisconsin. He centers his story in the driftless region of southwestern Wisconsin, where he begins with the history of the region. He describes how the village of Woodstock was once a thriving village in Richland County but has now all but disappeared. This village and the surrounding farming community had a close working relationship with each other. As the family dairy farms began disappearing, so did the businesses in the village, with which they had a close working relationship.Sieger introduces us to the fictional Schultz family, who were early dairy farmers in the area. As the years passed, now, fifth generation dairy farmer, Denny Schultz and his wife, Mary, face insurmountable economic problems. Denny learns that the bank will no longer lend him money, and he has a large feed bill at the local Cooperative that he is unable to pay. He and his wife have to decide what to do. The decision is a difficult one. Sieger, in heart-wrenching detail, shows the reader that confronting the reality of losing a family dairy farm involves emotional stress that transcends the economics of the situation. Here is an excellent novel to help readers more fully understand what has been going on in rural Wisconsin during the past couple of decades.~Jerry Apps, author of Wisconsin Agriculture: A HistoryThe book is richly illustrated with real photographs of the village of Woodstock, the surrounding environs, and dairying operations within both the smaller, iconic stanchion dairy barn and the large free stall industrial barns.

Beloved Wisconsin author Jerry Apps has impressed readers with his talent for storytelling as evidenced by a diverse and prolific output of more than 35 fiction and nonfiction books. Whether he is weaving a fanciful tale from his own imagination, recounting a true story of a bygone era, or sharing a memory from his own life, Jerry demonstrates an uncanny ability to forge a connection with readers with prose that is insightful, engrossing, often humorous, and always heartfelt. Jeff Wild, a long-time pastor who served three congregations in southern Wisconsin, counts himself among Jerry Apps' most ardent readers. As someone who has written many a sermon during 30-plus years at the pulpit, Jeff found himself impressed by the spirituality in Jerry's work and how well the author captures the essence of growing up in rural Wisconsin in the simpler times of the mid-20th century. As he sought out and read every book of Jerry's he could find, Jeff became of the opinion that this was an author who embodied a sense of place as much or more deeply than any person he had ever known. Upon his retirement in 2014, Jeff experienced a moment of serendipity-one might say, even divine intervention. He and his wife, Nan, became members of Midvale Community Lutheran Church-the very same church attended by Jerry Apps. Soon, Jeff found himself drawn to Jerry the person as much as he had been drawn to Jerry the author. From there, an idea was born-to produce a book of meditations with Jerry's prolific body of work as the inspiration. With Jerry's permission, Jeff forged ahead to write this volume, 40 Days with Jerry Apps, a daily reflection on such topics as Authenticity, Certainty, Gardening, Pride, Interdependence, and Loss. With selected texts from Jerry's writings serving as the springboard, Jeff makes connections in these entries that emerge from his theologically and biblically shaped imagination. His hope is that readers will find kernels of meaning in these meditations, which will lead them to wonder, to explore, and to make connections in the time and place that they inhabit.