Ken Newquist
Chip meets a Scarecrow
Bacon Fest – Easton’s biggest festival (73,700 attendees in 2023) is coming Nov. 2-3, 2024. To promote, the city has Bacon Fest t-shirt wearing scarecrows sitting on benches around downtown. Chip met his first scarecrow today … and he didn’t like it. Chip is an 11-month-old Seeing Eye puppy my family is raising (our 7th) … Read more
What I’m Reading: Station Eternity
Many years ago, at the dawn of the podcasting era, my friend Mur Laffery and I were podcasters. We were also writers, me mostly non-fiction, Mur fiction (well, actually, we both wrote non-fiction, but Mur wrote – and podcast – a lot more fiction than I did). She’s written a lot of fiction since then, and I’m … Read more
Puppies and Baseball 2024
Our Seeing Eye Puppy Raising Club held its annual puppy night at the IronPigs in tonight. A small host of puppies (and their human friends) saw our local AAA minor league team take on the Rochester Redwings. The ‘Pigs won, 4-2, thanks to a walk off home run in the bottom of the 10th.
Currently Reading: Dragons of Deceit
Dragons of Deceit sees legendary Dragonlance authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman return to their creation. This time, the story focuses on Destina, a young noble woman whose father died in the War of the Lance. Not one to let a little thing like death stop her, Destina seeks to travel back in time to prevent her … Read more
What I’m Reading: Inhibitor Phase
The latest book in the Revelation Space series finds humanity’s galactic civilization all but wiped out by the life-destroying (and alien) wolves.
What I’m Reading: The Empire’s Ruin
I enjoyed the world building – and world destroying – in Brian Staveley’s Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, in which alien gods walk the earth, an Empire struggles to survive against an ancient conspiracy, and the Kettral – elite, giant-bird riding warriors – try to stay alive through it all. This book picks up five … Read more