Back Again

Thanks to my friend (and designer of all good things)Curtis, Wendy's Whirl is officially "dis-connected" from the Entertaining Company mothership....so food, catering, travelling,having fun,relating friend/family stories, playing around in the Clubhouse, taking pictures of grafitti and anything interesting~ all part of the possible Wendy Whirl "stew" (or tagine, as we like to say in the catering biz when describing what once was formerly known as "stew")...

52 on Monday. How did that happen? Need to immediately crawl into the Clubhouse for some art project doodling and ruminating. The Clubhouse is where I/we hang out with the Glue Club and anyone else who wants to come over for chat, knitting, picture projects etc...also lots of wine and champagne drinking and snacks. Usually Sunday but could be some other day too...Even though the Clubhouse is
a real place (an old grocery store which is now a loft in front of our home) it also is a state of mind. No TV, NO Computer, No Business, only positive flowy vibes.

The neighborhood (in Chicago)was quite different years ago before gentrification....liked it because it was a funky street with a diverse mix of longtime residents and hippies. A guy named Henry lived one door south and didn't have any central heat~when my father and mother came, they said, 'Why would you buy here?'

Well, we did and even though our house would be a "teardown" in this overly gentrified neighborhood, we wouldn't (or can't think of right now) leaving the place where our kids grew up (okay, my husband, Michael, is Italian and can't conceptualize moving from the place where his kids grew up)and then, there's the Clubhouse. More on that later...