A.R. Geiger

My Blog

  • Cold March Evenings

    These days, it’s a little harder to find time and space to write. You know, between nannying thirty to forty hours a week, building a house, and taking care of an infant with serious skin issues. So finding time for my scripts, outlines, and short stories is a little bit difficult. Finding time for my…

  • Gut Issues

    I haven’t talked about this much on here. In fact, I haven’t said anything about it at all. I’ve mentioned my mastitis, talked a tiny bit about how hard recovery was for me, and kept most of my posts happy and geared toward finishing our new house and expanding our homestead. But this is the…

  • Making Progress

    These days, I plan my life around nap times. Lots of life happens during nap times. I clean the house, write my books, meet deadlines for my business, and, lately, frame walls and clean up a job site, all while my baby naps. As you can imagine, we make progress by inches. Or, I do.…

  • Working Hard

    That’s my little brother. He’s more comfortable with heights than I am. In other news, we’re making progress on our house! The second floor joists are all in, the back wall of the ground floor is framed, and I have a window in my bedroom. There is no bedroom yet, but by golly, there’s a…

  • House Full of Babies

    We have a house full of babies right now! Goats, goslings, and ducklings. Spring is coming!

  • Freakin’ Heroes

    One of our goats gave birth this week. At like dark-thirty in the morning. It was her first pregnancy, and, unfortunately, the baby was stillborn. I worked on it for a good ten minutes—rubbing, clearing the lungs, blowing into his mouth and nose—but things didn’t work out. Sadly, this is how farming works. Animals are…