Follow the adventures of the author and his fictional pseudonym, John Sherman, as they encounter the perils of Grammar School, High School, Princeton University, the United States Navy, and many other future environments ranging from Michigan, Illinois, California, France, the Mediterranean, Africa, and the High Seas. Through prose, poetry, plays, essays, dialogues, letters, a journal, monologues, orders, and fictional excerpts, those times are brought to life once again as the inner thoughts, reflections, humorous incidents, absurdities, and challenges of life are explored; all this while asking what it means to say 'Don't Be a Norwegian All Your Life.'