by Woody Weingarten | Dec 23, 2022 | 'Roving I' posts, Woody's favorites
‘Tis the season in which folks often focus on family and friends.The Roving I, a mostly light-hearted book that was just released, does just that — focus on family and friends. But its 70 first-person columns also include some that feature serious stuff, and numerous...
by Woody Weingarten | Sep 25, 2022 | 'Roving I' posts
Joe Marciniak, master artist who designed cover and inside illustrations for Grampy and His Fairyzona Playmates, has followed up with an incredibly lighthearted front cover for The Roving I. The cover features a walking cartoon body of me, Woody Weingarten, the...
by Woody Weingarten | Aug 27, 2022 | 'Rollercoaster…' posts
Woody Weingarten is an expectant father again — as an octogenarian. He expects his latest “baby” — an anthology of his newspaper columns, The Roving I — to be “born” shortly before his 85th birthday, Sept. 25. This will be his third literary effort, the first two...
by Woody Weingarten | Aug 26, 2022 | 'Roving I' posts, Woody's favorites
Artist Joe Marciniak took an idea birthed by Woody Weingarten and turned it into a whimsical cover for the author’s newest book, The Roving I. That cover depicts Weingarten, his real-life head superimposed on a cartoon body replete with pot belly, meandering into the...
by Woody Weingarten | Feb 1, 2021 | 'Grampy...' posts, Woody's favorites
Every time I read a book, I end up savoring particular lines and storylines. That happened again when I re-read “Grampy and His Fairyzona Playmates,” even though it’s a fantasy I actually wrote with my granddaughter, Hannah Schifrin. I especially liked the notion...
