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Sep 24, 2024 | geekmom.com | Ruth Suehle |Patricia Vollmer |Nivi Engineer

As a longtime Dragon Con attendee now measuring my time there in decades, I’m at least as fascinated by the culture surrounding the event as I am any given year’s panels or biggest costumes. I’ve written about aspects of it in the past (including its habit of forming “cults”), but this year I’m bringing you a series of posts of historical information, starting with an update to my 2017 post about the history of the fandom tracks at the con.

Aug 31, 2024 | geekmom.com | Lisa Tate |Patricia Vollmer |Nivi Engineer

The end of the summer months is here, and the “Brrr” Months are on their way to bring in fall and winter with all the trappings: September, October, November, and December. Not only do these come with the changing of the seasons, but also with so many events, holidays, and observances that it is hard to keep track of everything. It is even harder to keep up with how quickly they come and go and still have time to enjoy them for what they are.

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.

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.

Jul 22, 2024 | geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Patricia Vollmer |Nivi Engineer

I have a passion for books set in slightly altered versions of our own. While I love the high fantasy of The Lord of the Rings, I adore the world bending of A Discovery of Witches and Emily Wilde. In the latest book coming out this week from India Holton, we are introduced to a world much like our own, but one in which Ornithology is a dominant concern, and the birds they study are far more magical than our own.