by Woody Weingarten | Jan 30, 2021 | 'Grampy...' posts, Woody's favorites
I’m happy to present this guest post by Nancy Fox: I was 16 when I met a skinny guy named Woody in suburban New York. We ate pizza together. Later, when I got back home in Detroit, he wrote letters to me. Letters and letters and more letters. In one of them, he...
by Woody Weingarten | Jan 28, 2021 | 'Grampy...' posts, Woody's favorites
I’m happy to present this guest post by Callie Raab: Years ago I wrote a children’s song about fantastical creatures having a race that included the lyric, “Some had eyes on their fingers and toes, a horn on their chin, or a tail on their nose.” They were such...
by Woody Weingarten | Jan 25, 2021 | 'Grampy...' posts, Woody's favorites
Despite “Grampy and His Fairyzona Playmates” being a fantasy, it contains multiple parallels with the writers’ real lives. Consider, for example, when Lily and Grampy hurry to a pizza parlor where Lily and her bff, Penny, overstuff themselves “so much they had to use...
by Woody Weingarten | Jan 24, 2021 | 'Grampy...' posts, Woody's favorites
Where’d the idea for “Grampy and His Fairyzona Playmates” come from? Well, the mental magic actually started way back when, but without a single hocus-pocus, scepter or flying carpet. No magical tools whatsoever, in fact, just imagination. When was the “when”? Oh,...
by Woody Weingarten | Jan 23, 2021 | 'Grampy...' posts, Woody's favorites
Most writers create characters based on themselves and folks they know. And that’s exactly what Hannah Schifrin and I, Woody Weingarten, her granddad, did. Hannah decided that we’d write about me as Grandpa Graybeard, described in Part One: Mid-Spring of “Grampy and...
