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Geoff Balme

Geoff Balme

Lost In Distraction

It wasn’t long ago I was a Graduate Student and, while at times it feels like reviewing the life of a completely different person, I am…

Feb 3, 2020

Lost In Distraction

Feb 3, 2020

Geoff Balme

How to Develop Your Bullshit Detector:

and Save Your Money, Integrity, and Life

Jan 25, 2020

Jan 25, 2020

Geoff Balme

Near Do Well (excerpt: on the job)

One of my first projects is to run a steam generator all day long, cleaning about two thousand off-white, plastic folding chairs. Which get…

May 12, 2017

May 12, 2017

Geoff Balme

Party Excerpt from Sleepwalking Minions

When I get back in I can hear my desktop blinging messages to my open receiver. It’s Maggie and most of the messages are just asking where…

May 9, 2017

May 9, 2017

Geoff Balme

Success is for the Weak (excerpt)

a story of science, sex and self-doubt

May 2, 2017

May 2, 2017

Geoff Balme

Forest Mushrooms and Other Passions

A deposit of my identified wild mushroom photography (as well as a few other fun things) I hope you enjoy!

Apr 27, 2017

Apr 27, 2017

Geoff Balme

Smirkie Smirkenheimer

Jodie Lang didn’t have many friends, and those acquaintances who did tolerate her often referred to her behind her back as Smirkie Smirk…

Apr 26, 2017

Apr 26, 2017

Geoff Balme

Elsewhere Next Time

They came down the road together, Authelet, Donovan, and Corinne, passing the house with a hundred cats, and carrying their books under…

Apr 26, 2017

Apr 26, 2017

Geoff Balme

Ninja-sky and Penny On the Road (excerpt)

After Ninja-sky failed to talk his friend Howard (the Duck) into giving over the keys to his folk’s spare Volvo, he settled on another…

Apr 26, 2017

Apr 26, 2017

Geoff Balme

Quadrophenia

Kurt and I were friends going back some years. Sometimes when he was really sick, feverish from piss-tract infection, he thought it was his…

Apr 26, 2017

Apr 26, 2017

Geoff Balme

Geoff Balme

Scientist and naturalist. Ph.D. Everything from Lewis Thomas and Edward Abbey to Flaubert, Henry Miller and Jim Harrison inspires me. Acid Rock Guitar Junky.

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