The Geecologist

Going Solo

Going Solo

Sep 26, 2026 | Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

‘I saw Major Griffiths and his wife running round the deck naked the other morning,’ I said. ‘You call that dotty?’ Miss Trefusis said with a snort. ‘That’s normal. ‘ ‘I didn’t think so.’ ‘You’ve...
Go, Went, Gone

Go, Went, Gone

Sep 7, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

Before Richard moved to the outskirts with his wife, they’d lived in an apartment, a mere two hundred yards as the crow flies from West Berlin. And they lived there almost as peacefully as they later lived in the countryside. The Wall had turned their street into a...
We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies

We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies

Jul 30, 2022 | Fiction

Ama was an oracle. The realization came to my mother late in life, when her monthly bleedings stopped and something else opened inside. Some in our village called it an affliction. They said there was a crack in her mind that left her open to spirits who would consume...
The Power of Geography

The Power of Geography

Jul 16, 2022 | Essays, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

It’s worth contrasting the history of Australia with that of another colonial experiment—the US. America also grew from settlements on a fertile east coast and then pushed inland. But, once over the Appalachian Mountains, the fledgling nation expanded into the...
Brit(ish)

Brit(ish)

Jan 9, 2021 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

In the 1770s, a talented black man – born a slave, mid-Atlantic, on a ship – whose friends included the artist Thomas Gainsborough, the writer Samuel Johnson, and the Duke and Duchess of Montagu, set up a gro- cery store on King Charles Street. Ignatius Sancho’s...