Terry McGarry's Blog
November 14, 2018
Hemimastigophora
Halifax. New branch of life. Hairy-pistachio-nut microbes named after a terrifying hairy ogre from Mi’kmaq folklore. The awkward scurrying. I could not love this more. “It looks kind of like a pistachio nut with little hairs coming from between the shells,” said Eglit. “And it scurries around kind of awkwardly and it eats other complex […]
November 1, 2018
Or hiking boots, or combat boots
The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes. She does not carry a soothing lyre for inspiration, but is more likely to shake you roughly awake at four in the morning and rattle a sheaf of subtle, sneaky […]
October 21, 2018
Undevoidifying
Since I built my first website in the 1990s at (the now very sadly departed) SFF Net, I’ve seemed to follow a five-to-seven-year cycle of ever grander construction and ever deeper neglect. My SFF Net people page was followed by the Eiden Myr domain (and a ghostly, pretty site for the haunted-schooner book Moontide, both […]
March 12, 2018
Somewhere in the Caribbean
On the Joanie Madden Folk’n Irish Cruise in February. Scads more photos at Facebook.
November 20, 2017
Amsterdam to Basel
Castles on the Rhine cruise, Viking Alruna.
October 25, 2016
October 9, 2016
September 1, 2015
July 15, 2015
Catskills Irish Arts Week and Grey Fox
Somewhat reordered (not by me).
April 3, 2013
Ghost Stories on a Cool Spring Evening (Tonight!)
Jack Ketchum will be reading a work of his own, and I’ll be reading “Lost Hearts” by M. R. James, as the opening evening of a delightful new reading series concocted and curated by Andrea Janes and Gordon Linzner. Ghost [...]
