Mily Dunbar
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Santa Clara, NM, United States
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Mily's Ten Favorite Things in 2020 —
This year was very strange, for a million reasons you are all intimately familiar with, but not everything was terrible! I mean, I definitely never ever want to repeat it, and maybe I have played “A Long December” by Counting Crows an embarrassing number of times of late (Is it playing right now? → Read More
Review: HOLD BACK THE TIDE Is a Creepy Delight —
Hold Back the Tide by Melinda Salisbury is a tight and engaging young adult thriller that isn’t super scary but will leave you feeling disquieted while you drift off to sleep. Set in a small, isolated town called Ormscaula in the Scottish highlands, Hold Back the Tide follows intrepid teen Alv → Read More
DC@Home Day One: Full Comic-Con Panel Is All About the Creative Process —
Hey, today DC is putting the Comic back in Comic-Con with DC@Home Day One. This hour-long presentation is divided into two (or four, depends on how you count, I guess) parts. For the first 30 minutes, DC Superman Group Editor Jamie S. Rich hosts two groups of DC Superhero comic writers and artists → Read More
Amazon's UTOPIA: Full Comic-Con Panel and Teaser Trailer —
One of my favorite things at Comic-Con is randomly attending a panel and discovering a great new series. It usually happens when I’m in Ballroom 20 or Room 6BCF waiting for the panel I actually planned to see/need to cover, and suddenly I have a new favorite show. Obviously, things aren’t the same t → Read More
BACK TO THE FUTURE: DICE THROUGH TIME Is Impossibly Fun —
Ravensburger has a new board game called Back to the Future: Dice Through Time that was released in conjunction with the 35th anniversary of the film, and they sent me a copy to review. The basic conceit is this: Biff has stolen the time machine, mucked everything up, and two to four players hav → Read More
Maybe Try Some Homemade Surgical Masks to Reduce the Spread of Covid-19 —
So far, the CDC has taken the position that the wearing of masks by the general public is NOT recommended, even during a pandemic like the one we are in now. According to the CDC, healthcare professionals should absolutely definitely wear masks, and so should anyone who is infected, but your average → Read More
Shows for Grown Ups You Can Watch With Your Kids in the Room —
Usually I try to suggest activities that will keep your kids away from screens for a couple hours, but today has not been my best day. So instead of great fun activities for your kids, today I am going to share some of my favorite shows for grownups that I can watch when my kids are awake without re → Read More
Calm Down Jars Can Bring One Damn Minute of Peace in These Troubled Times —
I have to admit, I cheated on this one. I bought supplies to make these “Calm Down Jars” instead of using what I already had. However, I wanted to make them for several reasons. One, they are super fun. Two, this is a very tense situation we are in right now. I tend towards anxiety on a good day, an → Read More
Activities for Kids: Spend a Quiet Sunday Doing Illustrator Storytime —
Keeping it simple for Sunday, like days of the week have any meaning anymore. Today I covered the coffee table with paper, put out as many crayons and markers as I could find, and read to my kids while they colored. The best! The easiest! The… well, Finn got upset because he’s “not big” and isn’t as → Read More
Get Your Kids Out of the House for a Sidewalk Chalk Walk —
Credit where credit is due: this one was my husband’s idea. Of course, that led to some confusion because he thought he was giving me an an idea for a fun project for kids, and I thought he was showing me an activity he wanted to do with our kids. But it all worked out, and in the end, it was someth → Read More
Activities for Kids: Beast Hunter Extraordinaire —
Hey, how’s homeschooling going for you? For us, the answer is… not great! Nico is highly distractible and home has many attractive distractions. I decided he needed a project that would help develop some academic skills without necessarily feeling like schoolwork and remembered that in sixth grade w → Read More
Elevenses! A Fun Feast for Quarantined Geeks (and Their Children) —
Here is a list of things kids love: baked goods, themed meals, costumes, indoor picnics, any meal referred to as a feast. A comment on an article I read about stress baking last week got me thinking about Hobbit food, and since Nico and I read The Hobbit a little while back, I thought a Hobbit-sty → Read More
Geeky Activities for Kids: You Gotta Know When to Fold 'Em —
I had grand, if simple, plans for today. We would get up, putter around the house for a little bit, then make a bunch of origami ninja stars, take our bikes to the park, select some targets, and see if we could hit them with our ninja stars while riding past. Simple and fun, we get out of the house → Read More
Social Distancing with Kids Is Fun: Rollerball Paint Cards —
I swear, not every single kids activity we post will be paint related. Hand to God. In fact, today’s planned activity had zero percent paint involvement, but it was postponed due to slacker behavior on my part. Don’t delay your morning caffeine ritual when you are on a deadline, guys. So we ended up → Read More
Treat Yo' Self and Support Independent Artists While Social Distancing —
We are all bummed about missing the cons and festivals that have been canceled because of this whole global pandemic situation. But for a lot of people, canceled cons mean more than just not seeing the latest trailer or missing out on getting a poster signed; it’s a major loss of income. → Read More
Geeky Crafts for Kids in the Time of Coronavirus: Découpage Treasure Boxes —
The novel coronavirus, Covid-19, swept into our lives like a noxious gas, and it seems like most of us weren’t totally prepared. America seems to have realized shit was real Wednesday night, and things have moved quickly. Social distancing is the name of the game. Mass gatherings are canceled; schoo → Read More
Film Adaptation of Rainbow Rowell's ELEANOR & PARK in the Works
Good news for people who love good news! Beloved (by me) young adult novel Eleanor & Park is going to be adapted for the big screen. Picturestart has acquired the rights and will be producing alongside Plan B pictures. And just in case you thought the news couldn’t get any better, the bo → Read More
SHAZAM! Is a Fun and Funny Action Comedy Except When It's a Huge Bummer
I begin with a confession: this review is late. My review of Shazam! was supposed to run last Thursday, and then last Friday, and what actually happened is I tried and failed to write it so many times I just stepped away and took the weekend and tried to figure out what to say about this movie t → Read More
Marvel's Mrs. Maisel Saves the World and Has a Lot to Say About It
Hey, we are super excited for the release of Captain Marvel this weekend, but if you were wondering what the Marvel Cinematic Universe would look like if they had gone a different way with the character, check out the Funny Or Die Mashup called “ Marvel’s Mrs. Maisel “ that adds Amazon’s The Marvel → Read More
Netflix's Great Idea: A BABY-SITTERS CLUB Series
Say hello to your friends ! Again! Netflix is making a new Baby-Sitters Club series. If you live under a rock, the Baby-Sitters Club is a series of books for young readers about a group of entrepreneurial tweens who start their own baby-sitting agency. See, it all started when Kristy Thomas’s single → Read More