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Woody Weingarten asks, “Button, button, who’s got the button?”

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Read this to answer that old question and learn about three readable books

 ‘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 humorous others that showcase overheard conversational tidbits and one-liners.

Sounds like a perfect holiday gift to me, and it’s not too late to order one (or two, or more). I have a vested interest, of course, since I cherry-picked the essays from an archive of many more that I, Woody Weingarten, wrote over more than a dozen years.

Highlights, among other recollections in the collection, are an amusing tale about my pre-wife earning a slot in my Little Black Book, an upbeat story of a friend turning Parkinson’s Disease into an asset, an awesome family drama about a woman carrying her sister’s “miracle baby” inside her for five months, an inspirational adventure about a Cambodian slave-labor camp escapee becoming a successful U.S. entrepreneur, and a peek at legendary comic Robin Williams transforming himself into a talking vagina.

Button, button, who’s got the button?

That’s a refrain from my childhood (not mentioned in the book), but it certainly resonates today. Chanukah’s not over yet, and Christmas is in the offing. So, check out my website — http://woodyweingarten.com — and push the appropriate buy-button to purchase The Roving I.

Or push one for Grampy and His Fairyzona Playmates, a whimsical fantasy co-written by my 8-year-old granddaughter and aimed at 6- to 10-year-olds. Or Rollercoaster: How a man can survive his partner’s breast cancer, which details how my partner and I learned to cope, and which can benefit anyone who knows someone with any life-threatening disease.

It’s easy to find what my website labels fantasy, facts, and florilegium (an opaque, unfamiliar word meaning collection). Just go to http://woodyweingarten.com and select your favorite book outlet.

Woody Weingarten
Woody Weingarten, San Anselmo author of Grampy and His Fairyzona Playmates as well as Rollercoaster: How a man can survive his partner’s breast cancer, has been an award-winning editor and writer for more than six decades. Now he’s a feature writer, reviewer-critic, blogger and publisher — despite allegedly being retired. He's busily working on another book that anthologizes 70 newspaper columns he wrote over an 11-year period, rewriting a book interrupted by the pandemic that's about keeping the sizzle in relationships, and staying active in his dotage by being a doting grandpa.

About WoodyWeingarten

Woody Weingarten, San Anselmo author of Grampy and His Fairyzona Playmates as well as Rollercoaster: How a man can survive his partner’s breast cancer, has been an award-winning editor and writer for more than six decades. Now he’s a feature writer, reviewer-critic, blogger and publisher — despite allegedly being retired. He's busily working on another book that anthologizes 70 newspaper columns he wrote over an 11-year period, rewriting a book interrupted by the pandemic that's about keeping the sizzle in relationships, and staying active in his dotage by being a doting grandpa.