Category: About The Nola Nerd Couple

We are delighted you found Nola Nerd Couple. This website started as a way for us to share our travel experiences. The blog used to be CookTravelEat. However, we quickly realized that we kept attending nerdy events and doing all kinds of nerdy things. We evolved into the Nola Nerd Couple. We started writing about Star Wars, Comic Cons, comic books, etc. Then in 2017 we found out we were having a little girl and now we are a trio (even though we aren’t changing the branding til she pulls her weight by posting on this website!)

We hope you enjoy our site and if you want to see us cover an event near us, let us know! You can reach us at mrnolanerd@nolanerdcouple.com

An Honest Look at Teachers in Star Wars

Being a teacher is a difficult profession. There is no product or bottom line. You are dealing with actual lives. This is true in the real world and in fictional universes. No teacher is perfect, even ones who have Force ablities.

The Vision for Nola Nerd Couple in 2020

This past weekend was our ninth anniversary running this blog in one of its various forms. Now and then, we like to take stock of...

A Blogger Dealing with Writer’s Block

Ugh. Writer’s block. I’m a blogger dealing with writer’s block for nearly three months. I want to write for the blog, I just can’t think...

Treat Students The Way They Want to Be Treated

Ignore the Golden Rule As a teacher, you can’t follow the golden rule. I don’t have the same experience as a black student, gay student,...

Happy Birthday, Mrs. Nola Nerd Couple

Your Birthday, My Present Today, is my lovely wife’s birthday. Yet, I feel like I’m the one getting the present. The last eighteen months have...

Parenting: I Want to Be Well For Her

2018 Was a Challenging Year To say this year has exciting would be an understatement. It has been the best year ever, but it nearly...

Smiles and Pouts and Goodbyes

Mr. Nola Nerd Couple’s grandfather passed away last week. He lived a long, productive life full of good works. He was a member of the...

The Nola Nerd Baby is Growing Up Too Fast!

I’m writing this on the day that the Nola Nerd Baby turns seven months.STOP TIME! THE NOLA NERD BABY IS GROWING UP TOO FAST! She...

Teaching: How Buffy Made Me a Better Teacher

We are taking the week to prepare for the start of the school year (Thursday!), so we are reposting some of our older blogs.   With...

NOLA-ing: The Sound of Music Sing-Along

Guess what is coming back to the National WWII Museum? The Sound of Music Sing-Along! On Saturday, Saturday, August 18, 2018, from 6:00 p.m. to...