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2 months ago | 
geekmom.com | Melanie Meadors |Ariane Coffin |Sarah Pinault |Patricia Vollmer
“Science Adventures” are short informational articles you can share with your kids! Read them aloud, look up words your kids don’t know, and dig deeper on topics that spark their interest at your local library or the internet. Today we’re learning about snowflakes!Today was an awfully snowy day where I live, and it made me think about snow itself. What makes snow…well, snow? Why do snowflakes look the way they do? What is snow? Snow is frozen water.
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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 | 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.
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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.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Patricia Vollmer
I have been meaning to read Lev Grossman’s Magicians trilogy for some time, it is part of my ever expanding TBR list. It has probably moved up a couple of levels now that I have read his big release this summer The Bright Sword. Ever a sucker for an Arthurian tale, when I saw that this was coming out, I knew that I would get to it before his more well known works.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Elizabeth MacAndrew |Lisa Tate |Patricia Vollmer |Shiri Sondheimer
There’s a few things that give me a special sort of GeekMom nostalgia, but one of them is when a show I started covering from season one during my first year wraps up. The Umbrella Academy is one of those shows. There’s been a special place in my heart for the crazy superpowered and highly dysfunctional world saving shenanigans of the Hargreeves siblings ever since they first debuted. The final season has now dropped on Netflix with some mixed feelings.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Elizabeth MacAndrew |Patricia Vollmer |Sarah Pinault
So this is an exciting post for my crocheting journey, as it’s my final update for this series. To quickly summarize things up, I tried out my first Woobles kit back in November and then when the holiday rush and a few other projects were completed, I seriously started working on learning to crochet with the Woobles in April. I chronicled that journey across four posts (one, two, three, and four).
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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.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Elizabeth MacAndrew |Lisa Tate |Patricia Vollmer |Julie Tiu
Hey fellow geeky crafters! I’m back with another update in my learning to crochet journey. Earlier this Spring, I really started focusing on learning to crochet with Woobles after having a good experience with the first kit I bought. I also let you all know as I started leveling up in my skills. Now, I have another skill update for you.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Elizabeth MacAndrew |Patricia Vollmer
I had what I call a Level 4 Anxiety Spike the other day. I’m not 100% surprised in all honesty. Due to numerous factors out of our control, I’ve been undergoing a lot of burnout lately and we’re in the middle of trying to get that burnout recovery in control again. Some days it goes better than others. A few rough days in a row and I hit what I call Level 4 Anxiety Symptoms with Level 5 being the highest I rate symptoms at.
