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I love reading a story about families and the history of how they came together and the trials and tribulations that make a family truly a family, it reminds me of the tv show, Who Do You Think You Are. This story is about author Diane Keyes family with four generations sharing a lunch together every Thursday at Wendy's for the last 22 years. For Diane Keyes, the lunches came a healing on understanding the how and the why on how she was treated as a child in the hospital with a brain hemorrhage, being left alone in the hospital with no one explaining to her what the doctors were doing to her. She felt resentment towards her parents leaving her there and not giving her the comfort a scared child needs to get her through all the scary tests that were being done to her. (Thank goodness today parents are allowed to stay at the hospital comfort their children. (I was able to with my young son as he faced 11 surgeries for scoliosis. Children need their parents especially in the worst of time and as much as in the best of times).
Diane family also has a fun and outlandish aunt Fran, who was a woman ahead of her time. We all have someone different in all our families that we wish we could grow up and be just like them. If you Google Diane's aunt Frances Lanz you will find her in a picture of her on a Jeep pointing at another WAC giving the WAC grief about something. Her aunt did a lot of unusual things for a woman from her era you will find interesting.
You will meet Diane's parents, siblings, husband and children, and grandchildren and see what a loving, caring interesting family she has as they come together and to talk about old memories and make new memories as a family. Don't you wish your family would get together for lunch, maybe it would teach as all a lessons on relationships and how a family should all eat together instead of running all over the place and eating on the run, never really talking to each other and learning from each other the meaning of family?


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To Wendy With Love the 22year lunch edition by Diane Keyes Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews

To Wendy's with Love is about love rediscovered in new ways and growing to deeper levels of understanding by a family who gathered weekly to share a meal at Wendy's. Diane's reflective nature and her honesty to explore her past and her families past enlightens her and her family in the process and this is the journey of showing up and talking to one another over a meal. Diane's story made us think about our own stories and assumptions we make about our parents, grandparents and extended family. I found myself pausing to think about my own family. Her stories had me sometimes laughing, sometimes with tears in my eyes, and always making me reflect on the importance of showing up and having the courage to see life as more than one dimensional. We highly recommend this book which encourages all of us to show up, listen, do some reflecting, and to grow throughout the process.
Families can be fun, but they’re challenging as well. Diane touchingly shares her experiences with family secrets due to the “No Talk” rule. By casually reaching out through weekly lunches, Diane and her family are able to open up, move on, and build closer relationships. Families can bond over time and get stronger, and this book shows us all how to bring it back to our own families.
This is a story of how a family was pulled together by simply taking a lunch break with each other once a week for 22 years. Secrets exposed, hidden fears released, and love was strengthened - all over hamburgers at Wendy's. A touching story that anyone who has a family can relate to. We see how one invite to lunch grew into a family affair with deeper love and appreciation for each other. After reading the book, I was encouraged to schedule a meal with my family and will continue to do so regularly. My son said, "Let's do this more often."
I bought this book earlier today and I only put it down to come online and tell other readers how surprised (in a good way) I am and how moved. I expected a heartwarming story of family bonding and I got that and more. I never expected to be drawn in so quickly, nor did I expect to cry. I hate it when I cry. It means someone touched a nerve. The author got to me big time, simply by telling her own story. I don't know, maybe it's everyone's story. Now I must go back and finish the book.
Diane Keyes has written an unlikely “love letter to Wendy’s” (yes, the fast food chain)—To Wendy’s with Love The 22-Year Lunch. I sat down to give it a look one morning and blew my whole workday, getting up to make some tea once or twice before I finished it. It seemed to have something urgent to say to me, and I doubt I’m the only one feeling that way. The memoir recounts a long tradition of weekly lunch dates, starting with a cautious invitation from the author to her mother. Soon one aunt joins them. Choosing this place because it’s close to the older folks and everyone can afford it, and faithfully appearing every Thursday to chat, things snowball into a weekly touchstone of sanity for the whole clan, their friends, and even the Wendy’s employees who are lucky enough to work at this particular Minnesota store.

We are treated to loving portraits of family members and friends. Diane Keyes insightfully traces the secret histories of some of them, including her own haunted flight from childhood trauma, and the way The 22-Year Lunch created openings for healing conversations. She uses painful family history to illustrate how we can torture ourselves and our loved ones with the best of intentions, and how she found a way out of that pattern, one lunch at a time. She speaks of moving from a sense of obligation to show up at lunch, to gratitude for it, to considering it a great gift, and finally calling it sacred. I was reminded of a favorite family I grew up loving dearly—two sisters about my age and their parents—and how, to this day, every time I am with them, the phrase “the Feast of the Lamb” floats through my head. Here is a whole book celebrating a blessedly literal feast that these lucky people have given themselves, turning the special occasion on its head, reclaiming family and community in a way that has slipped away from most of us in the rush and isolation of modern life. It’s a very timely book.
I love reading a story about families and the history of how they came together and the trials and tribulations that make a family truly a family, it reminds me of the tv show, Who Do You Think You Are. This story is about author Diane Keyes family with four generations sharing a lunch together every Thursday at Wendy's for the last 22 years. For Diane Keyes, the lunches came a healing on understanding the how and the why on how she was treated as a child in the hospital with a brain hemorrhage, being left alone in the hospital with no one explaining to her what the doctors were doing to her. She felt resentment towards her parents leaving her there and not giving her the comfort a scared child needs to get her through all the scary tests that were being done to her. (Thank goodness today parents are allowed to stay at the hospital comfort their children. (I was able to with my young son as he faced 11 surgeries for scoliosis. Children need their parents especially in the worst of time and as much as in the best of times).
Diane family also has a fun and outlandish aunt Fran, who was a woman ahead of her time. We all have someone different in all our families that we wish we could grow up and be just like them. If you Google Diane's aunt Frances Lanz you will find her in a picture of her on a Jeep pointing at another WAC giving the WAC grief about something. Her aunt did a lot of unusual things for a woman from her era you will find interesting.
You will meet Diane's parents, siblings, husband and children, and grandchildren and see what a loving, caring interesting family she has as they come together and to talk about old memories and make new memories as a family. Don't you wish your family would get together for lunch, maybe it would teach as all a lessons on relationships and how a family should all eat together instead of running all over the place and eating on the run, never really talking to each other and learning from each other the meaning of family?