GeekMom Secret Origins: Our Weather Wizard, Patricia Vollmer
Patricia reflects on who and what made her the geek she is.
Continue ReadingPatricia reflects on who and what made her the geek she is.
Continue ReadingI’ve tried but I can’t go back far enough in my memory to trace my geek roots. I have memories of thoroughly enjoying the Star Wars spoof on Muppet Babies in ways that my friends didn’t, my first recurring nightmare as a child was Gmork from The Neverending Story, and I was fiercely competitive with […]
Continue ReadingThe word geek does actually exist in French. It’s even pronounced the same. But it came quite late. So did the other words depicting who I am, such as nerd. But there’s a lovely French word for “RPG player”: rôliste. And I’m a rôliste, since many, many years. So I figured I could be playful […]
Continue ReadingThe idea that I get to write a post about my “Secret Origins” makes me ridiculously happy. I debated telling everyone I was bitten by a radioactive squirrel or some-such, but that would be embellishing the truth. Only slightly though, as I was almost bitten by a very angry squirrel when I was a kid. […]
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