The Roving I - Weingarten, Woody

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Résumé :
The Roving I, with wit and wordplay, can spark laughter and tears You'll surely relate to this page-turner if:You enjoy heart-warming stories that tend to stir your emotions. You like to read about families with problems like yours-or different ones-and their solutions. You're apt to smile as the anthologist recalls when his partner earned a slot in his Little Black Book. You can marvel at a woman carrying her sister's miracle baby inside her for nine months. You'd relish hearing how happy a once wild pet duck makes residents of an assisted living facility. You'd find it amusing that Robin Williams transformed himself into a talking vagina. The Roving I is aimed at readers who believe they can mine gold from Woody Weingarten's 70 favorite columns. That faith will be rewarded. This prize-winning writer/editor has crafted and played with words for more than 60 years. He's worked for dailies and weeklies on both coasts, co-written a musical revue with his wife, led a support group for men, and served on local and regional commissions. He authored Rollercoaster: How a man can survive his partner's breast cancer and, with his granddaughter, a kids' fantasy, Grampy and His Fairyzona Playmates. Be jubilant! This literary anthology can help you learn:How a photographer turned his Parkinson's disease into an asset. How a Cambodian slave-labor camp escapee became a successful U.S. entrepreneur. How the author's attempt to do nothing became an instant fiasco. Readers have raved. One predicts you will chuckle, you might cry, but you will definitely relate to these enjoyable bite-sized essays. Others have labeled contents of The Roving I brilliant, wit and wordplay, like hanging out at a small-town coffee shop and meeting the guy who knows them all personally, and an antidote to the ugliness all around us. Find out for yourself why so many maintain you can delight in virtually every word. The book - a quick read that can be savored in one satisfying sitting or one chapter at a time - is available now. Once you've dipped into it, you can put it down, of course, but you most likely will choose not to....

Biographie:
Woody Weingarten, author of MysteryDates? and several other books, can't remember when he couldn't talk - or play with words. His first poem was published in high school, but when his hormones screamed that adulthood had arrived, he decided he'd rather eat than create rhymes (or even blank verse). So, he switched to journalism, jumpstarting his career in New Yawk more than 65 years ago. Now he's a California-based blogger and publisher, a feature writer, and a critic/reviewer - despite allegedly being retired.During his earlier, better-paid years as a wage-slave, he was an executive editor and writer for daily and weekly publications in California, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York.He's won writing awards for columns, features, editorials, public service, investigation, and news.A graduate of Colgate University, he owned a public relations/ad agency, directed a congressional primary campaign, served as media liaison for a psychiatric hospital, managed an advertising publication, and worked as a legislative aide.The father of two and grandfather of three, he's lived in San Anselmo for more than 37 years with Nancy Fox, his companion, collaborator, lover, wife, caregiver, editor, and a person who loving fills a score more categories.He figures he'll stay.

Sommaire:
Woody Weingarten, author of MysteryDates? and several other books, can't remember when he couldn't talk - or play with words. His first poem was published in high school, but when his hormones screamed that adulthood had arrived, he decided he'd rather eat than create rhymes (or even blank verse). So, he switched to journalism, jumpstarting his career in New Yawk more than 65 years ago. Now he's a California-based blogger and publisher, a feature writer, and a critic/reviewer - despite allegedly being retired.During his earlier, better-paid years as a wage-slave, he was an executive editor and writer for daily and weekly publications in California, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York.He's won writing awards for columns, features, editorials, public service, investigation, and news.A graduate of Colgate University, he owned a public relations/ad agency, directed a congressional primary campaign, served as media liaison for a psychiatric hospital, managed an advertising publication, and worked as a legislative aide.The father of two and grandfather of three, he's lived in San Anselmo for more than 37 years with Nancy Fox, his companion, collaborator, lover, wife, caregiver, editor, and a person who loving fills a score more categories.He figures he'll stay....