After nearly six years of motherhood, I'm finally starting to feel like myself again. Finally starting to get back into the things I loved before my days were filled with taking care of a child.
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We’re starting the week off with our Geek of the Week, Maddie Morrow, a writer and editor at Temple of Geek and geek fashion aficionado. Please introduce yourself: My name is Maddie. I am a lead writer and the deputy editor of Temple of Geek. Cosplay and geek fashion are two of my most favorite things! Also, I am currently going back to school for my degree in Communications. What do you geek out on? I geek out on Doctor Who, Marvel, Star Wars, cosplay and geek-inspired fashion. Now that we know what makes you a Geek, what makes you…
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I’ve wrestled a lot with the name Geek Mamas and thought about changing it hundreds of times. Why? Because I remember a time when I wanted so badly to be a Mama and couldn’t. And I remember a time when I was a Mama for less than two months before I suddenly wasn’t. And during that time of my life, if I saw something called “Geek Mamas,” I’d feel like it was a club where I just didn’t meet the membership requirements. I don’t want anyone to feel excluded that way. I felt those feelings for too long to forget…
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The first Geek of the Week for 2021 also happens to be a long-time friend of mine, from way back in the early days of cosplay. I met Victoria Avalor through a mutual affinity for dressing like Slave Leia and gathering in groups at conventions like SDCC and DragonCon. She also modeled corsets and costumes for my store when I had a costume shop. Now you can find her writing books, studying Egyptology and playing part-time princess when she’s not teaching her preschool class. Please introduce yourself: Hi! I’m Victoria Avalor and I have been cosplaying since 2006. I work…
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I’m working on a total blog overhaul, and things may look funny while I’m redesigning and moving around the categories and other things. It’s time to go back to my original blog plan, before Mom Life took over and all I had time to do was bang out a couple paragraphs about how awful toddlers can be. The funny thing is, 99% of the people visiting the blog won’t actually see this or realize what’s going on. But for the few that have been here since the beginning, or read the front page of the blog today, big changes are…