From The Tyee.ca, this is author Alberto Manguel, from the article Why We Still Bother to Read Novels: “Our society,” he says, “accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading — once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive — is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a…

Last year I cooked up the big family Thanksgiving dinner all by myself – no mean feat for a young guy. How did I do it? I made most of it three days before and froze or refrigerated the various dishes. I even made the gravy beforehand. Now, usually I’m super stressed when I have…

Welcome to upperfortstewart.com the new home of Upper Fort Stewart! I’ve gone off the deep end, not only getting my own domain but switching to WordPress too. I hope you like it – I do. Ah, Blogger, I Hardly Knew You I’ve wanted to get my own domain since I started blogging oh, so long…

I’ve been told that I could read well before kindergarten. I don’t remember being able to. I suspect I could read some individual words only. That I didn’t quite understand how a sentence worked. I have this suspicion because I’m fairly certain I remember reading for the first time. It was my first day in…

Well my annually ordered Stack of books is pretty much out of order. Who knows what I’ll be reading next now. But what am I reading right now? Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun. A series of four books collected in two volumes plus a sequel, which I’ll call the third half, The Urth…