GeekMom Sarah is one of our resident ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ experts; she gives us the viewing guide to prepare for January’s premiere of ‘Picard.’ Read More
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A Picard Primer: Returning to the 24th Century
Waiting for Hogwarts
Every September as the leaves start to fall, out comes the Harry Potter box set for the next installment of the movie. This year saw the arrival of Dolores Umbridge and Bellatrix Lestrange in the Pinault house. Read More
A Literary Obsession: School Book Fairs
Scholastic sells 55 million books to 70 million children and their families at more than 120,000 fairs in schools around the world. As well as encouraging early literacy, as a parent volunteer they also feed my addiction to some day owning my own bookstore! Read More
A Shortcut to Mushrooms
If you are looking for a new diversion, simply looking for your next good read, or if you need to hone your hunter gatherer skills for the next time a wizard shows up on your doorstep in the middle of the night, you will not be disappointed with the Norewegian Mycological adventures of Long Lit Woon. Read More
Fairy Tales Re-Written: Enter ‘The Hazel Wood’
The debut novel by Melissa Albert, ‘The Hazel Wood,’ offers a fresh take on fairy tales and a delightfully Burtonesque new universe to explore. A YA mystery/fairy tale/buddy story set somewhat in the wilds of upstate New York, be sure to enter the Hazel Wood soon. Read More
Santa’s Village: Leveling Up Christmas
Santa’s Village is the perfect holiday theme park. Read More
Goodbye, Farewell, Amen: Ten Episodes of Trapper John
For fans and novices of M*A*S*H, here is a list of ten classic episodes, designed to introduce you to Trapper John, the late Wayne Rogers. Read More
Nesting in the 21st Century
With each pregnancy, I have waited for that nesting instinct to kick in, waited, and waited. I thought it had never hit, but as I look back over the months of pregnancy, I see a different kind of nesting. I nest with gadgets and gizmos. I reach for time saving technology and devices to make life easier. Read More
Holiday Philately
Christmas is a time when we all seem to embrace, or run screaming from, one of the oldest geekdoms in existence: philately. No matter what your holiday inclination, it is hard to escape this season without a visit to the post office to pick up, purchase, or peruse the postage. This week, while mailing coffee from Maine to Ohio, my husband got an education in shipping that tickles my love of the absurd. Read More
The Twelve Chores of Christmas Eve
On the Twelfth day of Christmas I plan on not being stressed about my incomplete to-do list. And on the eleventh. And on the tenth… Read More
The Advent of the Legless Lego
I look with wonder at the Playmobil and Lego calendars, not wanting to spend the money, or the crazy on locating one. I wonder what I could stuff the boxes with, knowing that only a sweet treat in the morning will placate my darling angel children. Read More
Cryptic States of America
Looking for something pointless to do for a while? Try these U.S. state quizzes. Read More
Deep Water Interests
With deep water comes deep responsibility. Why should you be interested in a 164 ft deep pool over three thousand miles away. Read More
Build Your Own 'Jurassic World' With Lego
Dinosaur goodness abounds with these new kits from Lego. Read More
Something Unfortunate to Netflix Comes
Two days ago, a trailer was posted to YouTube by user Eleanora Poe. Eleanora Poe is the Editor in Chief of ‘The Daily Punctilio,’ a fictional newspaper in the equally fictional world of Lemony Snicket’s ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events.’ Read More
GeekMomPoll: Our Favorite Pixar Movie is…
Seventeen GeekMoms rate Twelve Pixar movies on a one through twelve scale, the results are in! Read More
‘Red Dwarf’: Ten Years Later
Irreverent BBC sci-fi comedy set to make a comeback this fall, 27 years after it originally aired. Read More
‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell’: The Friends of English Magic
‘Two magicians shall appear in England; the name of one shall be fearfulness, the name of the other, arrogance …’ Make sure you tune into BBCAmerica for Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Read More
In Defense of Time Spent on Facebook
A connection to her Grandfather in 1960 makes GeekMom Sarah reconsider her rage against Facebook. Read More
Counting Down: One Month to Jurassic World
More advance footage from the upcoming Jurassic World. Be still my beating heart. Read More
