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1 month ago | 
geekmom.com | Karen Walsh |Marziah Karch |Judy Berna |Jenny Bristol
Let’s talk about Wonder Woman and Diana Prince for a minute. Pretty much every comics geek has asked the same question since the character’s inception: “How is it that no one realizes that she’s just wearing a pair of glasses to hide her identity?”If you think about it, the answer is really about misdirection and privacy. Wonder Woman consistently misdirects people about her true identity, and she never (or rarely) shares information that could be used to link her to her alter ego.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Rebecca Angel |Karen Walsh
Lauren Bear debuted her first novel, Medusa’s Sisters, in 2023, a tale of Greek Mythology focusing on the sisters of Medusa and their relationship to the world and gods around them. It was evocative, compelling, and simply stunning. Bear has a wonderful capacity to take sidelined women and fully draw out their characters in an evocative Greek Myth that stands on its own two feet, outshining their more famous male co-characters.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Karen Walsh |Marziah Karch |Lisa Tate
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the GeekHouse, everyone was playing their favorite game. It will be a little while before the 2024 GeekDad Game of the Year is announced so, in the meantime, here’s a selection of some of our current favorite games to share with your friends and family this holiday season. Disclosure: Some of the links below may be affiliate links.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Karen Walsh |Sarah Pinault
“I’m the swine you love to hate.”“When isolation leads to madness, a revolution of the masses.”For this smoking volcano of Xennial feminist rage, music both fuels the fire and calms the spirit. Coming to adulthood in the late 1990s meant the music that raised me included artists like Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, Hole, and Garbage.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Karen Walsh |Sophie Brown
I lived in England until I was 22, when I married an American despite all warnings about portion size and heavy winters. My entire childhood was spent in the town of Walsall in the heart of the West Midlands. For many years my school was a few hundred yards away from my house, though in later years it was two towns and two city buses away. Within a mile of my house, I could walk to two fish and chip shops, a library, one Indian restaurant, and one Sikh temple.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Karen Walsh |Patricia Vollmer |Sophie Brown
Let me start by saying the unpopular thing out loud: I’m not normally a fan of the Legend of Zelda franchise. I know. Hear me out though. My first Zelda game was in the 1980s. I got confused. I got lost. I rage quit. More recently, I tried to play Tears of the Kingdom. I got confused. I got lost. I rage quit. Enter Echoes of Wisdom. I’m mostly a cozy gamer. I like to quietly meander through pretty graphics without dying or feeling anxiety.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Jenny Bristol |Sarah Pinault |Claire Jennings |Karen Walsh
You might think that the Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) series of books and the concept of a tarot deck would be fairly incompatible, but learning more about ourselves and the world around us through careful reflection is just another adventure, with far more choices than any book can contain. And getting to experience that by immersing yourself in art that’s reminiscent of childhood? Priceless. I’m coming at the Choose Your Own Adventure Tarot Deck as a complete tarot newbie (but CYOA devotee).
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Judy Berna |Karen Walsh |Nivi Engineer
This is my eleventh year with a child starting school, and things have changed a lot since that first year. I still take the morning off work to see them onto the bus, and we still have an early night the night before school starts. I still take the first-day pictures. But I no longer fuss and fret over who has the right school supplies. I no longer worry about the perfect morning picture, as long as I get one.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Melanie Meadors |Jenny Bristol |Karen Walsh |Sophie Brown
If Microraptor’s four wings were so useful, why don’t birds today have them? Let’s explore some evolution. Last week after I led a class for kids about the dinosaur Microraptor, an adult came up to me and asked, “Did you go to school for this?” I answered, “Yes.” I get asked this from time to time, especially when I touch on topics about life, the universe, and everything (see Douglas Adams).
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Lisa Tate |Elizabeth MacAndrew |Marziah Karch |Karen Walsh
Last week, after saving up and working up, I took my 22-year-old on a 450-mile overnight road trip to see her favorite group on the planet: ATEEZ. This was partly because the senior trip we had been promising her since she was a middle schooler fell through. She graduated in 2020, ’nuff said. It was partly because she had loved ATEEZ since she discovered them just a couple of days after their debut back in 2018.
