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Jan 15, 2025 | 
geekmom.com | Ruth Suehle |Karen Burnham |Rebecca Angel |Corrina Lawson
After exiting bankruptcy just last year, JoAnn Stores has filed Chapter 11 again, and it looks like this time they’re done. Gordon Brothers (the company currently liquidating Big Lots and some years back A.C. Moore) is the “stalking horse,” which means the company is open to other bidders, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. If no others come along in the next 60 days, they will begin going out of business sales at all locations.
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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 21, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Lisa Tate |Natania Barron |Rebecca Angel
I have always loved a fairy story. From the Flower Fairies I played with in my childhood, to the Bat Boys that occupy my middle age novels, something about the otherness of the fairy world has long lingered in my imagination. A parallel world, with similarities but so many differences. A shared world with a shared history. The ways in which the fairy stories of the past interact with the modern tales we tell ourselves. There is nothing like a good fairy story.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Lisa Tate |Jenny Bristol |Ruth Suehle |Rebecca Angel
It’s Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) on November 2, and, when you live in the American Southwest, beautiful ofrendas (altars) are everywhere. They are in front of people’s homes, part of Halloween and fall displays, in the halls of schools and libraries, courtyards of public buildings and churches, and even in restaurants and theatres.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Elizabeth MacAndrew |Rebecca Angel
A few years ago, when WandaVision first dropped, I wasn’t sure what it was going to be about, but it was a Marvel show and I decided to give it the benefit of a few episodes. I still remember the slow reveal of something larger going on, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that WandaVision was really a journey in processing the grief of the life you wanted to have which struck extra true to me given our battles with secondary infertility and pregnancy loss.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Rebecca Angel |Dakster Sullivan |Fran Wilde
In 2021, Author Sally Franson participated in a Swedish reality show, Allt för Sverige, in which 10 American contestants with Swedish roots compete for a chance to meet their Swedish relatives. Franson competed in, and won, season 10. This month, the fictionalized version of her experiences came out in her second novel Big in Sweden. Big in Sweden is not a biography, though Franson does draw on her intense experiences from the reality show. The biggest differences are in location and character.
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May 30, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Jenny Bristol |Dakster Sullivan |Karen Walsh |Rebecca Angel
Footrests, poufs, ottomans… Whatever you call them, they’re amazing for resting your feet on, sitting on, or using in any number of ways that are convenient and comfortable for your “I can’t be the only one who doesn’t sit ‘normally'” lifestyle. There are plenty of options out there, from stiff and sturdy ones, to softer ones, to downright squishy ones. I recently had the chance to check out one of the more squishy ones, Moon Pod‘s Lunar Lift footrest, that the company sent me to try.
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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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Mar 30, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Lisa Tate |Anika Dane |Rebecca Angel
From fantasy critters to horror movie icons to favorite video game characters, many cool creatures come from eggs. Some of these are very familiar, and some might not be anything special… until they hatch. A couple of years ago, I talked about some of the famous eggs in science fiction and fantasy in a special quiz, and now here’s the sequel! Let’s take a look at what comes out of them. Hatchlings, if you will.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Elizabeth MacAndrew |Corrina Lawson |Rebecca Angel |Dakster Sullivan
My boys are now ten and thirteen. Some parents have a harder time connecting with their kids and their interests at these ages, but as a pretty geeky household, I think we have an easier time of it. Getting older just meant my kids unlocked certain geek hobbies a lot more than when they were younger. They can play more complex board games, watch certain content they were not ready for when they were little, and start playing Dungeons & Dragons. I also do martial arts with the kids now.
