Patricia‘s summer of fun continues as all of the family is descending down to the Florida Panhandle for her husband’s military assumption of command ceremony. After how crazy this summer has been so far, this will actually be a relatively low-stress weekend! Delphine is finally reading A Dance With Dragons, while she’s not watching her […]
Continue ReadingI am definitely a Star Wars junkie. It started when I was seven and saw the first movie in theaters with my Dad. He’d actually seen it once already just to make sure it wasn’t too scary, and he made me close my eyes when Obi-Wan lopped off Ponda Baba’s arm in the Mos Eisley Cantina. It […]
Continue ReadingLast night my husband (Tim) and daughter (VIP) went to her Spring program which was the grand finale to her last day in pre-school. They brought home a huge keepsake packet to let me peruse through which included everything from a “report card” to art projects. When I had finally reached the bottom of the never-ending stack […]
Continue ReadingI like to say I’ve been a geek my entire life, and it’s not really that far from the truth. When I was small, my dad would read Lord of the Rings to me. I think this really helped mold me into the geek I am today. I really started to embrace my geekiness when […]
Continue ReadingNow that we are almost to April, some of the huge toy haul of December is in the discarded and forgotten pile. My oldest is notorious for playing with things for brief periods of time and then forgetting all about them. Out of sight, out of mind. For my youngest, who turns one next month, […]
Continue ReadingSomething very strange is happening in the cinemas around the world. Whilst in our reality we constantly hear about equal opportunities, gender equality and the removal of the glass ceiling; the female role models we see on the big screen seem to be turning a blind eye to it all and living in a world […]
Continue ReadingAfter such an enthusiastic response from my initial article on the dumb, weird, and baffling things my geek brain makes me do, I’ve collected a few more and garnered the courage to put them out there. These are, after all, the secret crazy things I normally keep to myself. After years of being the weird […]
Continue ReadingIs Jasper Fforde a geek? That’s still undecided (read his answer below). But he’s undoubtedly a mom ! Wait a minute, Jasper Fforde’s a man, how can he be a mum? Well, he deserves to be. If there was such things as GeekMom Awards, he’d get one for sure. For now, One of Our Thursdays […]
Continue ReadingAnyone familiar with me knows that I have a camera on my person at all times. If you see me walking down the street, I have a camera. I’m here, therefore I shoot. Wait. My first post for GeekMom and I’ve told a lie. The truth is that I’m usually carrying anywhere from 3 to […]
Continue ReadingGeek-brains are wired differently than non-geek brains. We hyper-obsess over strange things, we remember obscure details of inconsequential events, we have little to no shame when it comes to the things we geek out over. We might be firmly opposed to going in public in just our bra and panties, but paint them gold and call it a Leia Slave-Girl […]
Continue ReadingI didn’t get physics in high school. All I remember was Mr. Cleaves rubbing a wand and the rude comments the demonstration sparked (no pun intended). But I loved calculus and photography. Now I know why. It ‘s always the teacher. Finally, I get physics and it’s all because of Walter Lewin, Professor of Physics, […]
Continue ReadingLooking for something larger than life that will thrill the entire family this holiday? A tool that is a gateway for magnifying thought, an inspirational device used by poet laureates and Ivy League professors, preschoolers and Ph.D.s, not to mention geek Grinches and Whos? It fits in the palm of your hand, but has infinite […]
Continue ReadingOccasionally, I find my reality thrown into harsh perspective. A few days ago I wrote of my unexpected experience in a neighborhood I didn’t mean to be in. My tale had a house on Cherry Street and child with a stick. And at the time it didn’t have a very happy ending. If you missed […]
Continue ReadingA monumental event has occurred in my household. I purchased my Word of the Day calendar today. No, you don’t understand. This is big for me. I am fascinated by words. This is a helpful passion when a writer. I don’t really even need them arranged in sentences. I save my favorite Word of the Day […]
Continue ReadingWe here at GeekMom are proud and excited to announce that GeekMom T-shirts are now available for purchase at ThinkGeek! The shirts have our zippy space-age car logo, in slightly less varied colors (due to printing restrictions), and our URL on the back. The shirts come in black, cut for women but still generous in […]
Continue ReadingIn standing with our family tradition we hit the movie theaters this holiday weekend. We ended up seeing what I thought were going to be two very different flicks. I discovered to my delight I really saw the same movie presented in two radically different ways. The first film I caught, Tangled, I brought my […]
Continue ReadingWe’ve all done it. We’ve all earned the scathing look and the whine of discomfort because we just accidentally static shocked our child. You always feel just a little bad, unless of course you did it on purpose, in which case you are trying very hard not to smile. But in all things there is […]
Continue ReadingIt takes a lot to impress my four geek kids. They range in age from 9 to 18 and with all the birthdays and holidays we’ve seen, not many products surprise us anymore. So imagine my surprise when we received a box in the mail last week that contained a ‘toy’ that kept them occupied […]
Continue ReadingIn the beginning, a little nausea and napping under my desk was all I expected. When I really took a look at what I do on a daily basis, however, I realized being a pregnant MythBuster was going to be hard.
Continue ReadingHello, world! Welcome to the new GeekMom blog. We consist of four active geek mom editors–Natania Barron, Kathy Ceceri, Corrina Lawson, and Jenny Williams–and a gaggle of geek mom contributors, led by the publisher of the popular GeekDad blog, Ken Denmead. We have a vision of what this site will be: a source of geeky […]
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