My top ten choices from almost 300 blog items.
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...
"Grampy and His Fairyzona Playmates" is an imaginative story that kids can read to themselves — silently or aloud — or enjoy while parents, grandparents and/or great-grandparents read to them. Indeed, children from 6 to 10 are likely to enjoy anyone reading it to...
I'm happy to present this guest blog by Hannah Schifrin: Most of the scenes I came up with for “Grampy and His Fairyzona Playmates” when I was 8 were a lot of fun to write. They just popped into my head. So did the names Fairyzona and Fairyville. My favorite scene is...
Is seeking medical advice online normally a good idea? According to Dr. Jen Gunter, an ob/gyn who practices in San Francisco and who gained some degree of fame from repeatedly disputing A-list actress Gwyneth Paltrow's claims about benefits provided by her Goop...
The headline read, "Companies need to care for their caregivers." And the subhead stated unequivocally that "supporting your workers is good for business." Those words summed up a vintage column in the AARP Bulletin written by the organization's chief executive...
Best-kept secret? That 16 million men in America are caregivers, about 40% of total, AARP reveals Caregiving. That’s the main theme of “Rollercoaster: How a man can survive his breast cancer,” a VitalityPress book that I, Woody Weingarten, aimed at male caregivers....
Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night, to borrow a phrase, can stop my writing. Nor can the coronavirus. Although Covid-19 has caused a major delay in the publication of "MysteryDates," which may not find its audience for another year or so, it won't be able to...
OK, I admit that the coronavirus has greatly disrupted my life. And my octogenarian wife's. It's forced us into a real retirement: There are no plays or concerts or museum openings for me to review; there's no weekly support group for me to run (where I normally help...
Black women's fatality rate from breast cancer greatly exceeds that of whites, HuffPost story saysBlack women are 40% more likely to die of breast cancer than whites, especially in the South.That was the conclusion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...
Lack of money may adversely impact health of cancer patients, says AARP articleSurviving cancer may depend on what's in your savings account.At least that's the conclusion of an article by Peter Moore in an edition of "AARP: The Magazine" a while back.The piece...