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Upcoming events

  • Happy Hour for a Cause - School Uniform Drive Kickoff

    • Tuesday, June 10, 2025
    • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    • Padre's | 3522 White Oak Dr, Houston, TX 77007
    • 16
    • 14 registrants
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    Get ready to sip, socialize, and support local students! We're kicking off our annual School Uniform Drive at a Happy Hour for a Cause at Padre's Wine Bar and Shop. Enjoy light bites and special wine pricing just for our group.

    We'll share plans for the 2025 Drive and start collecting cash, credit card, and check donations to help elementary and middle schoolers in our community. Our School Uniform Drive helps ensure students have the confidence and comfort of proper clothing, setting them up for success in the classroom. Can't make it? You can still donate online!

    New to our club? Kristen Adams, Membership Chair, will be available to chat about who we are, what we do, and all the incredible ways we give back to the community. Come hang out and learn more. We can't wait to see you there!

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  • June Weekday Activities Summer Lunch

    • Wednesday, June 11, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
    • Bungalow Heights 1919 Beall St. Houston
    • 17 registrants
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    Enjoy lunch and conversation with your Weekday Activity Group friends over our long, hot summer. 

    When: Wednesday, June 11 at Noon.

    Where: Bungalow Heights, 1919 Beall St. Houston

    Logistics:  Meet us there.

    Details:  As a lunch attendee, you will order from the menu and pay for your own lunch. Bungalow Heights Menu

    If you have trouble registering, please call or text Laura Furlong at 309-838-9101. So that we can be seated together, please RSVP by June 10. 



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  • Literary Group | The Joy Luck Club

    • Thursday, June 12, 2025
    • 7:00 PM
    • HHWC Clubhouse | 1846 Harvard
    • 13 registrants
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    The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

    Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.

    With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.


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  • Creativity Group - Tai Chi

    • Monday, June 16, 2025
    • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
    • HHWC Clubhouse | 1846 Harvard
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    Tai Chi has been practiced in China for over 600 years.  It is a series of gentle movements used to reduce stress, improve balance, increase flexibility and many other health benefits.  Many HHWC members take Dr. Beverly Newman's class at the Third Age Learning Center (TALC).  Over the last few semesters, Club Member Cathey Harrison has been Dr. Beverly's substitute teacher. 

    Join us at the June 16th meeting as Cathey leads a multilevel Tai Chi session.  No experience required.  Wear your exercise attire and come ready to unwind from the day. 

    We hope to see you there!

    About us:

    The Creativity Group meets on the 3rd Monday of each month. We are a group of Members who have created a space to appreciate and explore all types of creative expression.  We provide an audience for each other’s creativity.

    Meetings will be held at the Clubhouse with guest speaker “expert” talks, group projects and feedback on our writers’ written work.  Additionally, members take turns planning creative excursions such as classes, art, film, music, theater, crafts, museums, cooking, and poetry. 

    Please contact Kathy or Marlo with any questions.

    *You must be an active Club Member to attend Creativity Group events.

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  • Literary Group | Circe

    • Thursday, July 10, 2025
    • 7:00 PM
    • HHWC Clubhouse | 1846 Harvard
    • 4 registrants
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    Circe by Madeline Miller

    In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.

    Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.

    But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.


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  • Literary Group | Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

    • Thursday, August 14, 2025
    • 7:00 PM
    • HHWC Clubhouse | 1846 Harvard
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    Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza

    October 18, 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. “My name is Cristina Rivera Garza,” she writes in her request to the attorney general, “and I am writing to you as a relative of Liliana Rivera Garza, who was murdered on July 16, 1990.” It’s been twenty-nine years. Twenty-nine years, three months, and two days since Liliana was murdered by an abusive ex-boyfriend. Inspired by feminist movements across the world and enraged by the global epidemic of femicide and intimate partner violence, Cristina embarks on a path toward justice. Liliana’s Invincible Summer is the account—and the outcome—of that quest .

    In luminous, poetic prose, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: Liliana is a spirited, wondrously hopeful young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. Rivera Garza traces her sister’s history, depicting everything from Liliana’s early romance with a handsome but possessive and short-tempered man to that exhilarating final summer of 1990 when she loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before.


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  • Literary Group | All the Broken Places

    • Thursday, September 11, 2025
    • 7:00 PM
    • HHWC Clubhouse | 1846 Harvard
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    All the Broken Places by John Boyne 

    Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve. She doesn’t talk about the grim postwar years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn’t talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich’s most notorious extermination camps.

    Then, a new family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can’t help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a disturbing, violent argument between Henry’s beautiful mother and his arrogant father, one that threatens Gretel’s hard-won, self-contained existence.


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  • Literary Group | James

    • Thursday, October 09, 2025
    • 7:00 PM
    • HHWC Clubhouse | 1846 Harvard
    • 1 registrant
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    James by Percival Everett

    When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

    While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.


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  • Literary Group | The Buccaneers

    • Thursday, November 13, 2025
    • 7:00 PM
    • HHWC Clubhouse | 1846 Harvard
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    The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton

    Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charming—and their wealth extremely useful.

    After Wharton's death in 1937, The Christian Science Monitor said, "If it could have been completed, The Buccaneers would doubtless stand among the richest and most sophisticated of Wharton's novels." Now, with wit and imagination, Marion Mainwaring has finished the story, taking her cue from Wharton's own synopsis. It is a novel any Wharton fan will celebrate and any romantic reader will love. This is the richly engaging story of Nan St. George and Guy Thwarte, an American heiress and an English aristocrat, whose love breaks the rules of both their societies.


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  • Literary Group | Annual Holiday Party + The English Understand Wool

    • Thursday, December 11, 2025
    • 7:00 PM
    • HHWC Clubhouse | 1846 Harvard
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    Annual Holiday Party + We'll discuss The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt

    Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid leave while one spends the holy month abroad. One must play the piano; if staying at Claridge’s, one must regrettably install a Clavinova in the suite, so that the necessary hours of practice will not be inflicted on fellow guests. One should cultivate weavers of tweed in the Outer Hebrides but have the cloth made up in London; one should buy linen in Ireland but have it made up by a Thai seamstress in Paris (whose genius has been supported by purchase of suitable premises). All this and much more she has learned, governed by a parent of ferociously lofty standards. But at 17, during the annual Ramadan travels, she finds all assumptions overturned. Will she be able to fend for herself? Will the dictates of good taste suffice when she must deal, singlehanded, with the sharks of New York?


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  • Books & Tea | Author to be Determined

    • Sunday, January 18, 2026
    • 2:00 PM
    • HHWC Clubhouse | 1846 Harvard
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  • Literary Group | Solito

    • Thursday, February 12, 2026
    • 7:00 PM
    • HHWC Clubhouse | 1846 Harvard
    • 1 registrant
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    Solito:A Memoir by Javier Zamora

    Javier Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks. At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents’ arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.
     
    A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier Zamora’s story, but it’s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.


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  • Literary Group | North Woods

    • Thursday, March 12, 2026
    • 7:00 PM
    • HHWC Clubhouse | 1846 Harvard
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    North Woods by Daniel Mason

    When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave—only to discover that the earth refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter, a sinister con man, a stalking panther, a lusty beetle: As the inhabitants confront the wonder and mystery around them, they begin to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.

    This magisterial and highly inventive novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason brims with love and madness, humor and hope. Following the cycles of history, nature, and even language, North Woods shows the myriad, magical ways in which we’re connected to our environment, to history, and to one another. It is not just an unforgettable novel about secrets and destinies, but a way of looking at the world that asks the timeless question: How do we live on, even after we’re gone?


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  • Literary Group | The Bee Sting

    • Thursday, April 09, 2026
    • 7:00 PM
    • HHWC Clubhouse | 1846 Harvard
    • 1 registrant
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    The Bee Sting by Paul Murray 

    The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under―but Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, while their teenage daughter, Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge drink her way through her final exams. As for twelve-year-old PJ, he’s on the brink of running away.

    If you wanted to change this story, how far back would you have to go? To the infamous bee sting that ruined Imelda’s wedding day? To the car crash one year before Cass was born? All the way back to Dickie at ten years old, standing in the summer garden with his father, learning how to be a real man?  The Bee Sting is a portrait of post-crash Ireland, a tragicomic family saga, and a dazzling story about the struggle to be good at the end of the world.


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