Giveaway: “Homeschool Hacks” and a $25 Amazon gift card.

This was the year for homeschooling, all right – whether parents liked it or not. My friend Linsey Knerl had her book, “Homeschool Hacks,” in the works before COVID started, however.

And I’m willing to bet that Zoom classrooms and homework evenings would have been sooooo much easier had parents across the country gotten their hands on “Homeschool Hacks: How to Give Your Kid a Great Education Without Losing Your Job (or Your Mind).” [As an Amazon affiliate, I may receive a small fee for items bought through my link.]

But don’t take my word for it. Listen instead to Lela Davidson, author of “Faking Balance: Adventures in Work and Life,” “Who Peed on My Yoga Mat?” and “Blacklisted From the PTA”:

“For anyone serious or merely curious about homeschooling, this is the perfect first read.”

Who am I to argue with someone who wrote a book called “Who Peed on My Yoga Mat?”

More to the point, I would never second-guess Knerl’s expertise: She has six kids and has homeschooled them all. Knerl learned what she knows by being a successful homeschool parent (along with her husband), which she does in addition to having a career as a freelance writer.

This is a two-part giveaway: I’ll be sending “Homeschool Hacks” to some lucky winner along with a $25 Amazon gift card. The scrip can be used to buy a few things for your own homeschool classroom. (Or for anything you like, really.)

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A truly Marvel-ous opportunity.

Last week I attended the Emerald City Comicon in order to visit with my brother, the independent artist GW Fisher. Four samples of his work can be seen in this post. They’ll also be given away.

I didn’t get a glimpse of George Takei or Wil Wheaton, but I got an eyeful of costumed revelers: superheroes, anime characters, steampunk posers and a tall young woman in a Wonder Woman bikini who left a string of broken geek hearts in her leggy wake.

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