As a runner I sometimes hear stories about athletes who discovered that they were good at running distances during the course of their first marathon. Although it is said that James Fenimore Cooper’s first novel was not well received, it is easy to see how he might have been encouraged to try again. [...]
I forced myself to stop reading several pages into my latest Cooper book in order to write about the ones I have recently finished.
One of the most interesting things in “The Spy” by James Fenimore Cooper was the deep reverence and respect that most characters had for George Washington. He was the perfect [...]
It seems unfair for someone to find out in my first paragraph what I had to read halfway through James Fenimore Cooper’s book to learn, but I will explain the title. “Wish-Ton-Wish” is the main location in the story, which is in turn named after the whippoorwill, or American night hawk. The [...]
I took a sick day today and I will probably take another one tomorrow. I’m sick enough so I have no energy and well enough to worry that my sickness is not enough to merit two days off.
Does our society put more pressure on its members than the society of, say, 150 years [...]
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