A.R. Geiger

My Blog

  • Saying Goodbye

    We said goodbye to Mrs. Hudson yesterday. She was sixteen years old, which is pretty elderly for a cat. She’s been my old lady since I brought her home seven years ago, creeping around the house, hiding in my towel cupboard, and catching the mice that tried to invade my home. She drooled when she…

  • Evernote

    I spent the last week of 2021 organizing my entire life. Also battling Covid with hot ginger tea, Netflix, and NyQuil, but let’s not talk about that. Actually, let’s talk about that, really, really quick. First off, Covid sucks. For all of the reasons. Second, there are so many good shows on Netflix. Like, so…

  • Breaking Ground

    To celebrate 2022 arriving, I would like to take a moment to stop and appreciate the craziest purchase I made in 2021. Weird, right? Don’t worry. It gets weirder. Know why? In 2021, my husband and I bought . . . an aircraft hanger. Are you shocked? Horrified? Intrigued? So was I. What happened was…

  • Fall Festival

    At the very beginning of autumn, while I was still locked up in my house because of allergies, I made a list of all the fun things I wanted to do as soon as I was released from my sneezy cage. I told you all about this, remember? We’re definitely skipping the bonfires this year,…

  • Packing to Run

    We had a fire in our valley last week. A big one. Really big. It was on the news. Unfortunately, Colorado is not a good place to have any kind of fire, thus the statewide fire bans that come into effect every single year. It’s very dry here. Dry grass, dry brush, dry pine needles.…

  • A Day In The Life

    I am a full-time writer. I’ve mentioned that about a million times on this blog, along with noting that I run my own business as a freelancer. But today, I’d like to dive a little deeper into what that looks like on a daily basis.I’ll give you a hint. I don’t actually spend my entire…