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Oct 8, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Jenny Bristol |Amy Weir |Maryann Goldman |Lisa Tate
I’ve been a bit of an obsessive fan of Jane Austen’s novels and some of the adaptations for decades. In recent years, a few Jane Austen-themed games have come out, purporting to be reflective of the Regency era, but so far, to me, they’ve all fallen flat. They either only touch on some of the themes, or they paste a Jane Austen skin on a completely unrelated game. I’ve kept hoping for something more accurate and relevant to the stories, though.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Amy Weir |Dakster Sullivan
It is Autumn in New England. It is Autumn all over the country, but in New England we feel these things rather keenly. There are mums and pumpkins on all the front steps. There are apples in bags in all the kitchens. We are the land of Gilmore Girls and Stephen King, of fields of pumpkins and Christmas trees. And even those who don’t crack a book on a daily basis, feel the urge to wrap up in a blanket, listen to the leaves rustle, and read a good book.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Amy Weir
If you are a Geek Parent yourself, you’d be hard pressed not to have an affinity with this generation’s sage blue dog. Bluey has been a family favorite of ours since it first hit our screens in 2020. I was even able to interview Chilli herself, Melanie Zanetti, for GeekMom. The wit and wisdom of Bandit, the games created by Bluey herself, the curiosity of Bingo, the simply amazing Chilli, there is something for everyone on this show.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Lisa Tate |Amy Weir |Nivi Engineer
After several years of my daughter following and loving K-Pop—and trying to convince her classmates and later coworkers that this genre was about to explode in popularity—she is finally getting to say “I told you so” to everyone else. Unfortunately, when you live in a relatively isolated city like ours, big K-Pop events don’t exactly come around very often. There has been an emerging effort from our city’s avid fanbase, hosting cupsleeve events, markets, dances, and other wonderful celebrations.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Amy Weir |Shiri Sondheimer |Corrina Lawson
When I was twelve years old, my English teacher took us to the library and told us to find a book or two that met a few requirements. It had to be something we hadn’t read before, and it had to be something outside of our usual reading habits. Being an RL Stine devotee, I picked up Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I still have a soft spot for Tess, but it was Elizabeth Bennet who stole my heart.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Amy Weir |Lisa Tate
Despite living in Maine, home of horror hero Stephen King, for 20 years, I am not drawn to horror when it comes to my reading habits. I am, however, drawn to quirky and mysterious, which is why I was drawn to Murder Road by Simone St James. It is July of 1995. On their way to a small honeymoon in the mid-west, April and Eddie find themselves lost.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Dakster Sullivan |Patricia Vollmer |Amy Weir
Lucky Hart has a predilection and talent for the supernatural. However, her interest in parapsychology is not taken seriously by anyone, and she finds herself isolated—and self-isolating—as a result. She is estranged from her family, has repeatedly lost friends, and has been rejected from graduate school on two separate occasions. She is finally able to land a break in her chosen field by scheming her way onto a reality show about Hennessee House, an old Victorian house with a notorious reputation.
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May 25, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Rebecca Angel |Amy Weir
If you asked me for a list of my creative skills, I could name many things in the world of fiber arts, wordplay, and kitchen-related crafts. What I could not name would be drawing. It is of frequent lament to me that my traditional artistic skills are null and void. Of late, however, my children have been waxing poetic about how I am a wonderful “drawer,” even better than Daddy! They have been asking me to draw things for them. They have been asking to draw with me.
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May 5, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Lisa Tate |Amy Weir |Karen Walsh
It always blows my mind how much money celebrities (or their stylists) will drop on an item that intentionally looks like it was pulled out of a throw-away bin. One of the recent examples are the sweaters TOMORROW X TOGETHER have been wearing in some of the live dance performances for their hit “Déjà Vu.” They look like they were ripped apart accidentally and sewn back together in a hurry. I will refer to these as “Frankensweaters.”They aren’t the first ones to do this.
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Feb 17, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Elizabeth MacAndrew |Amy Weir
This past weekend, I finished up the first campaign that I was ever a DM for, and I’m not going to lie, it’s a little bittersweet. One of my players is moving out of state and won’t play in the next campaign, but all of my players got a sense of what kind of “life goes on” ending each of their characters will have. I have left things open enough that when they start the next campaign, the heroes of the first can make little cameos at various points.
