You can’t have too much of a good thing, unless you’re averse to bliss. One of life’s Very Good Things, in my book (pun!) is the library. There’s a movement afoot to augment our public libraries with other ways of spreading bookish goodwill. This doesn’t just get books into more ...

Ironically, Hurricane Irene caused most of its damage after it wasn’t even a Tropical Storm any more. It’s one thing to get long, hard rains when you live in a coastal area, but it’s quite another when you live far enough from open water that the rain simply builds up ...

Back in April, we told you about fantasy author James A. Owen’s ebook, Drawing Out the Dragons; Owen has recently launched a Kickstarter project to raise funds for a print edition. Owen explains that although the ebook (available in PDF form as well as in formats for mobile devices and ...

By the time Alice Ozma was nine years old, she had gotten used to having her father read stories to her. But her father, an elementary school librarian, worried that pretty soon she would declare herself too old for stories, as her older sister did years before. So they made ...

According to the United States of Shame chart, I live in the nerdiest state. I’ve always belonged to the Sisterhood of Obscure Interests. Membership naturally seems to include awkward, shy, and unattractive moments (or decades). But it makes life more interesting. For example, when I accidentally bashed my head on a ...

For the last few years, James A. Owen has been turning out volumes of his fantasy series, The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, beginning with Here, There Be Dragons in 2006 and following up with Search for the Red Dragon, The Indigo King, The Shadow Dragons, and The Dragon’s Apprentice. ...

You’ve got to hand it to librarians: they have got their stuff together. Some of the most tech-savvy people I engage with on Twitter are librarians and they know that learning and literacy are so much more than books. GeekDad readers are well aware that libraries are places that not ...

Ah, the 1970s. A simpler time, when kids played outdoors and parents weren’t burdened with concerns like whether superheroes were bad for their kids or if their car seats actually kept their kids safe. Yep, back then all you needed was a couple large cardboard boxes and a utility knife to ...