What do you do when a series of books you are supposed to review are so beautiful, so creative, so artistic and so imaginative, that you can’t summon up the words it would take to describe it? This is the quandary I find myself in over a series of books about Kokeshi dolls by author Annelore […]
Continue ReadingKelsie Ladd is the second oldest in her family of artists. She is fifteen years old and was kind enough to answer my questions about the Womanthology book and herself. How did you find out about the Womanthology project? A few years ago, while visiting a comic book convention, I met an amazing female artist […]
Continue ReadingI love making cupcakes and have enough cupcake books that if I made a new batch every day for a year, I think I’d still have plenty left to try. But most of my cupcakes are not as fantastic as the ones created by Jenn Fujikawa of Just Jenn Recipes. I interviewed her on the […]
Continue ReadingI bought my first house a few months ago. It was scary and exciting, but the best part was getting to decorate the new house! Thanks to Pinterest, I was able to browse and save my home decor inspirations. ThinkGeek frequently showed up on my credit card bill. Etsy proved to be a great place […]
Continue ReadingMy “regular” life doesn’t give me much time to indulge in my geeky interests. I edit books, feed chickens and cows, write articles, attend meetings, spend too much time on the interwebz, run errands, interact with the kids I’ve spawned, make dinner, and at the end of each day try to spend a some […]
Continue ReadingAs Moms, we’ve probably baked about five gazillion cupcakes. Some of them were simple but some, usually the ones that were special requests by the kids, have been a bit more challenging. In this episode, GeekMom Nicole Wakelin talks with Jenn Fujikawa of Just Jenn Recipes about her geeky food creations, especially cupcakes. From Star Wars […]
Continue ReadingToday we’d like to send GeekMom birthday wishes to Casey Kasem, celebrating his 80th today. Most of our kids have no idea what “Saturday morning cartoons” are, but Casey hosted NBC Saturday Mornings in the 80s and was known to many of our parents for “Casey’s Countdown” and the “American Top 40 with Casey Kasem” […]
Continue ReadingApril is Autism Awareness Month, but if you’re like our house, autism awareness happens every month. That’s one of the reasons I love this shirt on ThinkGeek. Neurodiversity is a movement centered around the philosophy that autism isn’t a disease. It’s a difference in development. Sure, it’s also a disability, but that doesn’t mean we […]
Continue ReadingWhat do Ramen noodles, knots, and genome globules have in common? If you’re researcher Erez Lieberman Aiden, these are models for his groundbreaking research on 3-D mapping the human genome. At the end of the day, he shares advice and wisdom with aspiring young scientists. His connections to TED and Google lend a “cool” factor […]
Continue ReadingIf you have young Star Wars fans in your house, and they haven’t read Tom Angelberger’s pair of origami-novel love letters to the franchise, I highly recommend you pick them both up now. And if you don’t have young Star Wars fans, but you are yourself perhaps a less-young Star Wars fan, you’ll enjoy them […]
Continue ReadingHappy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week. Avengers vs. X-Men Issue #2 review – Dakster Sullivan Last week, Avengers vs. X-Men issue #2 was released. Eager to see what is going on between two of my favorite teams, I was […]
Continue ReadingIf you’re like me and enjoy having comic books to call your own, here are some tips for getting started on a collection.
Continue ReadingA while back, I wrote about having high hopes for the new Pixar film Brave. If you’re anticipating it too, you’ll be interested to know there are new trailers out. Go here to watch them, then go practice your archery!
Continue ReadingIt’s time for another look at the GeekMoms’ never-ending stack of books. Collectively, we sure manage to make our way through a fair number of pages, whether we’re reading them on dead trees or e-readers. Here’s what we’ve read this month. Sophie has just finished reading I Want to Believe (The Official Guide to the […]
Continue ReadingEleven more days until the full joy of The Avengers hits theaters. Meanwhile, you can enjoy this series of new featurettes just released. Several bits of the dialog we’ve already heard in the trailer, but this may be my new favorite exchange, which appears in a couple of the featurette videos: Thor: Big man in […]
Continue ReadingNot long after my children returned to public school after two-and-a-half years of homeschooling, it started. At this point, my older son was in 8th grade and so gym meant changing in a locker room with the other kids in his class. A couple of his peers developed a habit of coming up behind my […]
Continue ReadingThank you to everyone who entered this giveaway. I wish you could all win, but much like The Highlander, there can be only one and the winner is… Aimee M! She will get a copy of the game, a Silver Collector Tin, a Gold Series Collector Tin and a Sticker Album. Congratulations, Aimee!
Continue ReadingI almost didn’t post anything for Birthday Week. It wasn’t until GeekMom Kelly posted about banning the goody bags that I remembered a clever goody bag idea… which was in itself part of a wonderful birthday experience for my oldest son. In 2006, when the family was living in Apex, North Carolina, we had the […]
Continue ReadingIf you see a shooting star, do you stop and make a wish? No? You should, it’s fun! OK, OK … so a shooting star isn’t really a “star,” nor is it “shooting.” It is a meteorite burning up upon re-entry into the Earth atmosphere. (I suppose that’s not as romantic a description as a shooting […]
Continue ReadingPlay with your food. Go ahead. Make a banana truck, pancake guitar, pineapple boat, or cereal face. Artfully silly food takes on new appeal thanks to a man who has plenty of experience making creative meals. Bill Wurtzel, an art director and jazz musician, has made amusing breakfast for 50 years to serve his wife […]
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