A.R. Geiger

My Blog

  • A Christmas Carol

    It is not Christmas. I am aware of that, thank you very much. Nor am I generally the type of person to be singing Christmas carols in July or leaving my Christmas lights up all year round. (Okay, you caught me. I totally am.)   But, if we are going to be fair and totally…

  • Bamboo Gardens

    I hide in the bamboo again, the way I did when I was a child and my nurses wanted to put me to bed. I would complain that the sun had not yet fallen behind the mountains, and then I would hide from them in the gardens, in the bamboo. They always knew I was…

  • A Tale of Two Cities

    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .” So begins one of my favorite classics, a book that I didn’t expect to like and instead fell head over heels in love with. A Tale of Two Cities captivated me. Its poignancy, intrigue, and complex characters drew me in,…

  • I’m Back!

    Last month, my entire family piled into our twelve passenger van at 4 AM, pointed the wheels east, and started out on a two-week adventure. We drove through Kansas, saw lots of rolling hills, dry plains, and squished rabbits, and stopped at gas stations in the middle of nowhere with names no one will ever…

  • The Book Thief

    Time to be a little candid. We’re all readers here, right? We all love books, we all have stayed up much too late one night or another, because we only had a hundred pages left and we couldn’t just give up. And I would hazard a guess that we all have that one book. The…

  • Spiders

    They’re clinging to the walls, hanging from the ceiling. Silken threads thick with dust, with age. Some of them are so fragile they seem to disintegrate when I touch them. The rest cling to my hands. I feel them brushing against my shoulders, my neck, and I have to close my eyes and remind myself…