Dine-and-Discover Meetings and Events
Our meeting date is the last Wednesday of the month. Special event dates will be announced. RSVPs are due by noon on the Monday prior to each meeting as online registration automatically closes at that time. If registration is closed and you find you can attend, please contact Mary Abshier to check on seating availability.
Below is a menu of programs that are sure to satisfy any intellectual appetite. Join HFCW’s meetings where lifetime learners gather. Be a part of our long history of sharing wit and wisdom with HFCW members and their guests since 1974.
Questions? Contact Mary Abshier at marketing@hfcw.org or 281-923-9241
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Reading in a Brave New World
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
PROGRAM
Everything changed for us in March 2020. That includes our reading habits. As a bookseller we noticed some differences in our customers’ reading. Come and you’ll discover some of my recent favorite books as I dish out opinionated reading advice. We’ll have time for questions, so get your questions ready for me.
SPEAKER
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Valerie Koehler opened Blue Willow Bookshop in west Houston in October 1996. She is the general manager, buyer, and oversees all operations.
Blue Willow, with only 1,400 square feet, has become a neighborhood destination with a vibrant children’s department, a haven for book clubs, and a place to meet authors of all genres. This bookshop is a leading partner for many city-wide initiatives; including TeenBookCon, Tweens Read, and Bookworm Bookfest. Blue Willow also partners with many non-profit literacy organizations. Valerie was named a Champion of Literacy by Literacy Advance of Houston. She has served on the boards of MidSouthIBA, Mountains and Plains IBA, American Booksellers for Children, and American Booksellers for Free Expression. Her latest position was serving as a board member of the American Booksellers Association. Valerie has an extremely patient husband and two sons successfully launched into the world (not without the appropriate amount of maternal angst). They, and especially her grandson, give her great joy along with her large, boisterous family of siblings, nephews, nieces, and her 93-year-old mother, the matriarch. |
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to marketing@hfcw.org.