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The Roving I: Collected columns, wit, wisdom, and self-exposure is a treasure chest of 70 newspaper columns I wrote over a 12-year period, focusing mainly on the unusual personalities and skill sets of ordinary folks.

This book is a unique, humor-packed collection (or florilegium, for those who mischievously like to use an arcane word that means the same thing).

Hannah lovingly hangs on to Woody.

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Well, the new edition of my first book, Rollercoaster: How a caregiver can cope with breast cancer or any other lethal disease, contains tons of information as well as a chronicle of how my wife and I coped with the serious disease, its treatments, and its aftermath. 

It covers medical advances from the 11 years since the first edition was published, and two additional bouts of breast cancer my wife and I had to handle. 

Although I became an expert reluctantly, I now can unflinchingly share what I’ve gleaned from personal experience (including a weekly support group I’ve facilitated for 30-plus years).

MysteryDates, meanwhile, can help you retain, resuscitate, or refresh the joy that flared when sparks first sparked between you and your mate. It’s a “how-to” guide for happy relationships sandwiched between travel and trek cues that might better be dipped into rather than read cover-to-cover in a single sitting. 

Memoirs were culled from 35 years of dates that either I or my wife created; tips emerged from my doing countless hours of research.

The Roving I includes scores of my memories — including my partner earning a slot in my Little Black Book, a friend carrying her sister’s “miracle baby” inside her for nine months, and Robin Williams transforming himself into a talking vagina.

My favorite endorsement for the book comes from Fiona Quinn in Chicago: “This collection is brilliant! Woody Weingarten has the rare capacity to connect with readers through humor and thoughtful analysis simultaneously. This is no small feat, and this collection can be compared to Mark Twain’s pithy humor, which camouflages the depth and seriousness of his subject matter.”

Young readers who love to let their imaginations run wild might want to read or just hear about the misadventures of Grandpa Graybeard, his granddaughter, and her bff in a four-part fairytale, Grampy and His Fairyzona Playmates.

Readers would thoroughly enjoy the book if they want to giggle at the idea of romping in piles of blue and purple and pink leaves, sighting jazz-singing chicks, finding winged albino otters, or following a pair of 8-year-old fairies who accidentally make 1,498 cartons of ice cream.

Joe Marciniak, longtime artistic pro, colorfully illustrated the story. Not incidentally, he later exquisitely designed the covers of MysteryDates® and The Roving I as well.

A glimpse of my mental meanderings (individual and in conjunction with my wife), guest blog posts, and new data I’ve gathered in recent years about disease — all that may be found in “Woody’s Favorites.”