The Geecologist

Four Thousand Weeks

Four Thousand Weeks

Aug 12, 2023 | Geekery, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

You only ever get to feel certain about the future once it’s already turned into the past. Likewise, and despite everything I’ve been saying, nobody ever really gets four thousand weeks in which to live – not only because you might end up with fewer than that,...
Amaryllis Night And Day

Amaryllis Night And Day

Jul 28, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

I’ve already gone into our conversation about my bird-women. That took place a few months after I asked her to move in with me and she said no. As I think of it now I know we’d have driven each other crazy but at the time her refusal shook me and I had to...
Heroes of the Frontier

Heroes of the Frontier

Jul 16, 2017 | Featured, Fiction | 0 comments

“My kids should eat,” Josie said, hoping to focus herself and Sam on practical matters. “Doug’s on it,” Sam said, nodding toward a bonfire, which Josie realized was also the barbecue. This was a barbarian arrangement — a vast open fire being fed with giant logs, and...
Ways Of Seeing

Ways Of Seeing

Jun 4, 2017 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

A woman is always accompanied, except when quite alone, and perhaps even then, by her own image of herself. While she is walking across a room or weeping at the death of her father, she cannot avoid envisioning herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she...