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111 SUN VALLEY | SOLD 4 Bed | 4.1 Bath | 2 Car | 4,379 SF Sinnott Clayton & Dybvad Group 214-536-8786

5511 VANDERBILT | SOLD

4 Bed | 4 Bath | 2 Car | 4,296 SF Sinnott Clayton & Dybvad Group 214-536-8786 PENDING

299 CLAIRE | SOLD 4 Bed | 4.1 Bath | 3 Car | 3,530 SF Patty Collins - 214-862-5524

6522 PRINCE | $650,000 3 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 Car | 1,755 SF Brown-Qualls & Schrickel Group 214-801-1795

6451 LANGE CIRCLE | SOLD 3 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 2 Car | 2,322 SF The Chris Hickman Group 469-569-1106 PENDING

5124 GARRETTE FIELD | $634,000

3 Bed | 3.1 Bath | 2 Car | 2,278 SF Russ Brown - 214-263-4377 PENDING

8710 VISTA OAKS PLACE | SOLD 4 Bed | 3 Bath | 3 Car | 3,846 SF Michael Anderson - 214-325-9590

4011 FAIRLAKES | SOLD 2 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 Car | 2,758 SF Kim Nikolis - 214-460-5456

6645 LANGE CIRCLE | SOLD

11012 RIDGEMEADOW | SOLD

2 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 Car |1,737 SF The Chris Hickman Group 469-569-1106

LAKEWOOD | LAKE HIGHLANDS | 214-826-0316

4 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 2 Car | 1,996 SF The Hardt Group - 214-924-7577

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$500,000 Duplex Peter Loudis - 214-215-4269

10308 LYNFORD | SOLD

3 Bed | 2 Bath | 1,496 SF Jay Forrester - 469-867-0316

EBBY’S LITTLE WHITE HOUSE | 214-210-1500

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823 CLERMONT | $899,900 4 Bed | 3.1 Bath | 2 Car | 3,228 SF Peter Loudis - 214-215-4269

2239 PECAN GROVE | $630,000 3 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Car | 2,914 SF Denise Larmeu - 214-336-6687

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LAKEWOOD ADVOCATE VOL.29 NO.2

PROFILE 14 Steve Austin DINING 28 Kostas Cafe FEATURES 20 Tech company addressing DEI 32 True love 40 ADUs and STRs 42 Local luxury COLUMNS 26 Book talk 48 Documenting nature in film

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1234 Street Address-$000,000 Name Here 000.000.0000 5506 Vanderbilt Ave. $559,000 Robert Kucharski 214.356.5802

1234 Address-$000,000 NameCollier Here 000.000.0000 1200 Street Main St. #913 $425,000 David 214.536.8517

1234 Street Address-$000,000 Name Here 214.536.8517 000.000.0000 10442 Sylvia Dr. $329,000 David Collier

1234 Street Address-$000,000 Name Here214.458.7663 000.000.0000 6429 Malcolm Cir. SOLD David Griffin

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1234 Street Name Here 214.458.7663 000.000.0000 7121 Bob OAddress-$000,000 Link Dr. SOLD David Griffin

1234 Address-$000,000 Name Here 000.000.0000 5816Street Prospect Ave. SOLD Bart Thrasher 469.583.4819

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DALLAS | $2,999,999 Karen Cuskey 214.454.4917 karen.cuskey@cbdfw.com

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DALLAS | $220,000 Zenidah Vasquez 972.322.3668 zenidah.vasquez@cbrealty.com

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Steve Austin’s signature accessory is colorful hats, which he wears in all of his videos.

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t was back last October, I believe it was. We was going to hold a tent service off at this college town, and we got there about dinner time on Saturday. Different ones of us thought that we ought to get us a mouthful to eat before we set up the tent.” So go the opening lines of Andy Griffith’s monologue

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“What it Was, Was Football.” Some might have heard the actor deliver it on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1954, or maybe they bought the record in 1953. Some might have never heard it at all. But others might have heard it from Woodrow Wilson alumnus Steve Austin. Back in his high school days, Austin was a record

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p ro f i l e pantomime, which is the old-school version of lip syncing. He competed in talent shows, including one at the State Fair of Texas, where he won second place for his performance on the Pepsi Stage. “What it Was, Was Football” was one of the pieces Austin used to cover, along with “It’s in the Book” by Johnny Standley and “I Went to Your Wedding” by Spike Jones & His City Slickers. “I think I wanted to be an entertainer, but I didn’t really know what that meant,” Austin says. “As a young kid, I wanted to be a trapeze artist. I always thought that was interesting, to be able to get up there and fly around. My grandfather was an entertainer, and I think that’s where I got the bug.” Before Austin was in the chorus, drama club, ice skating club and JROTC at Woodrow, he went to junior high at Alex W. Spence. He was bused to the school, not because of integration, he says, but because campuses were too crowded. After he graduated from Woodrow in 1957, he joined his best friend in New York City. But by the time Austin arrived, his friend was living with a girl, leaving Austin to sleep on the floor. That only lasted a few weeks because he took a job with summer stock, a summer theater circuit prevalent in the 1960s, and moved upstate. And when he came back to the city at the end of the season, he found an apartment and a roommate. “I lived in New York in the wild ’60s, very young and naïve. And this kid from Texas, experiencing life,” he says. After 10 years there, he returned to Texas, bought a house in Old Lake Highlands and started working for his father as a dental technician. When his father retired, Austin took over the lab, managing it until his own retirement. But he still wanted to do something. He got a job at Dallas Summer Musicals, selling tickets in the box office and planning events for almost 20 years. “That was like my element, I guess,” Austin says. In the ’90s, he started making YouTube videos. For one of his first, he put on a wig and some funny glasses. He thought he looked scary. He’s pretty tech-savvy and taught himself or Googled how to use a swath of apps, like Vine — until it “went kaput” — and most recently, TikTok. “I didn’t really know what I was going to do because it’s a young person’s media,” Austin says. “And people on there, they danced and sang and did lip sync and stuff like that and I was kind of out of my element.” Creating the videos — around four daily across TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Facebook and Instagram Reels — has provided Austin an escape and a way to express himself creatively. For a while he wanted to be an actor, but he was afraid he wasn’t good enough to make it. This way, he can entertain while retaining a certain level

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of anonymity, because he doesn’t see his audience. Videos like “Cooking with Old Man Steve,” where Austin records himself making a bowl of cereal or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, receive a lot of attention. This was especially true while stay-at-home orders were in place. Years ago, one video of Austin eating a peanut butter sandwich went viral on Vine and got over 9 million views. Now with 1.7 million TikTok followers, Old Man Steve has been featured in Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal and was a guest on CNN, Rachael Ray Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show and even an Australian morning TV show. On Rachael Ray’s show, Austin was asked to make a dish, so he took saltine crackers and spread cream cheese and peach preserves on top. “When your gal pals come over and you all have a glass of wine, you can bring these out and you can sit around and munch on them,” he told her. “Well, she thought that was the funniest thing she ever saw.” From the very beginning, he wore colorful hats in his videos because he thought it made him look better. He collected a few, and then people began sending hats to him. Now, he has more than 100 in different shapes and sizes. Some other things he gets in the mail are peach preserves and once, a note from a girl saying she wanted him to be her grandpa. Austin has received some financial rewards for his success. In one TikTok video, he talked about his back pain and said he needed a new mattress. Weeks later, he received an email from a company offering to send him a new mattress if he did an unboxing video. He also did an advertisement for Thomas’ Original English Muffins. He invested in lighting equipment to improve his videos, which he records at his apartment in Richland Hills, but he does all the work himself. He needs an entourage, he says: a driver, someone to do his makeup, a bodyguard, the works. That’s not to say Austin hasn’t tried including others. He invited his cat, Buttons, to join the videos, to no avail. “I told him if he would be more clever, we could do videos together, but he doesn’t like the camera,” he says. “It’s hard for me to get him on camera. I said, ‘We can make lots of money.’” Austin’s content is “wholesome,” according to parents whose kids have introduced them to his work, and he never discusses politics or religion. He did one series on YouTube called “Old People Hotline,” where he took phone calls from seniors and gave them advice. He says he thinks he did “pretty good” on those. “I still can’t believe all of it has happened and why did it wait to happen when I was over 80 years old,” he says. “I’m 83. Why couldn’t it have happened when I was younger so I could really maybe done so much more?”

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tar Carter lives in the heart of Lakewood. She loves watching her kids play soccer and taking the kids fossil-digging with her husband, a geologist. A new neighbor recently moved in, so the Carters dropped off a welcome gift. They love sitting on the porch and talking. “I just love that kind of family feel that you have in this

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neighborhood,” she says. Her husband bought the Lakewood Hills home before they married. Carter owned a Deep Ellum townhome when she was single and still working at a law firm. When they married, they decided to live in our neighborhood. Around the corner, her friends Mandy Price and Bennie

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King live with their daughter and son. King loves Upper Greenville because it reminds him of Austin, where he used to live. All three friends grew up in the Dallas area: Price in DeSoto, Carter in Plano and King in Dallas. The three started as freshmen at the University of Texas in staggered years: Price in 1999, Carter in 2000 and King in 2001. They hadn’t met each other yet. Dreams of being a hot-shot New York City private equity lawyer died once Price realized she was a Texas girl through and through. She liked the South’s Novembers, when she could wear flip-flops. She loved being near family. Plus, Dallas is an established financial city where she could broker private equity at a big law firm. Twenty years later, the three friends operate Kanarys, a 3-year-old tech firm centered on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) that has broken funding records and had incredible growth. DEI is a hot topic these days. Even the City of Dallas hired a consulting firm to assess and improve how city hall decisions affect marginalized communities. Most consultants work with companies to address diversity and cultural issues by using anecdotal evidence and basic demographic data. Kanarys helps companies address the same issues, but with a significant technical twist: Karnarys’ proprietary software analyzes a company’s demographic data, industry rankings and trends, along with anonymous employee reviews, to help unearth equity issues. The findings collected are presented in a company dashboard, and Kanarys helps devise plans to shift culture. “We started Kanarys based on our individual experiences,” Price says. “We’re really working to ensure that we’re creating a workplace, no matter someone’s identity, that they are able to succeed within that organization.”

rice and Carter qualified for a scholarship program that provides full rides to UT students whose families don’t qualify for federal aid but aren’t wealthy enough to pay for college. To foster a sense of community for the recipients, the program hosts picnics, dinners and other events. That’s when Price and Carter, a marketing major, developed their friendship. Price, a finance major, was running for student body president when biology major King decided to join her campaign team. That’s when their friendship developed. While Price and Carter were earning law degrees from Harvard, King started working at a pharmaceutical company that made plasma-based vaccines. Halfway through his career, King switched to the company’s compliance side and dealt with privacy and data security. King was still living in Austin when he came to Dallas for a wedding Price was attending. They had remained friends for 20 years, but King thought there could be more. He asked a mutual friend if he’d put in a good word with Price. “He was like ‘Absolutely not, it’s a terrible idea,” King says. “Both of you are my friends, and I do not support it at all.” King texted Price anyway and asked if she’d like to hang out.

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“That was the beginning of us,” he says. “ N o w, h e [the friend] loves us together.” By fall 2008, King proposed to Price. In the process of planning a destination wedding, t h ey ke p t running into obstacles finding a venue. That led to King’s next career move. King, who was a front-end manager of a nightclub and did some event planning while in college, knew most of the venue owners in Austin. He launched VenueCenter, a locating service. King and Price lived in North Oak Cliff when they first married. After deciding to start a family, they moved to Lakewood. They now have a 6-year-old and a 4-year-old. In 2018, King sold VenueCenter in a private transaction. Right about that time, Price approached King and Carter about an idea she had: Kanarys.

I started thinking that I didn’t want my children to have to be prepared in the same way.

s Price worked on the Innocence Project and Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, she witnessed racist and sexist incidents on campus. “There’s just so many things. It’s hard to say that there’s one thing to point to,” Price says. “The pivotal moment for me as far as Kanarys goes was not one incident, but the quantity of them.” As a partner at a big law firm, Price would ignore microaggressions while helping others navigate similar inequitable corporate issues. “I started thinking that I didn’t want my children to have to be prepared in the same way,” Price says. “And I didn’t want to keep teaching these kinds of skills, when we could actually make the systems themselves better.” By that point, Price and Carter were working at the same law firm, even sharing an office. They swapped stories about the inequities they were experiencing and observing. Carter says her partnership promotion was delayed because she took maternity leave. After pitching and acquiring clients, she says she was sometimes removed from working the clients’ file. She felt like others were taking credit for her work. “We talked about how we really needed to look at these inequities and help organizations, in a way, understand those experiences, their underrepresented employees, and also

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understand their systems, policies, procedures and practices,” Carter says. The best way to solve equity in a corporate world is data. “Any other business unit within a company develops KPIs [key performance indicators],” King says. After spending more than a decade facilitating mergers and acquisitions, Price saw that companies’ business priorities rarely aligned with DEI. The taboo of discussing DEI didn’t help. “Everyone automatically relates it back to personal experiences,” King says. “But if we have data to back that up and say, “Hey, you know, you may have had the best of intentions, but this is what your employees are experiencing when it comes to XYZ.”

ncreasing diversity and inclusion have always been a passion of Price and Carter. In college, Carter was the president of NAACP student chapter, and she chaired the diversity committee when she worked in law. Price was appointed to the Task Force onRacial Respect and Fairness by UT’s president and also served on her law firm’s diversity committee. Price also served on the board of a nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating for employees. Price says she and other people of color resigned from the board. “I was feeling like, “Wow, if this is something that is happening with this group that is advocating for employees, then how much more difficult it is for corporations and other groups to tackle these issues,” she says. They started developing the idea for Kanarys while they were still working their full-time jobs. Then the trio quit. “We were a bit naive thinking that, you know, we have a solid product, a great idea,” King says. “We’re innovative, and we’re going to be able to raise this money with no problem.” According to PitchBook, women raised only 2.3% of venture capital money nationwide in 2018, and Black women raised only .06% of that funding. In the first half of 2021, Black startup entrepreneurs received 1.2 % of the $147 billion in venture capital

It became a rallying cry by corporations and CEOs and executive leaders.

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invested in U.S. startups. Only 93 women in the U.S. have raised more than $1 million in funding as of the end of 2021. So to start their business, they took money from their savings accounts. Price’s father cashed his 401K. Her brother invested. They went without a salary for months. To save money, they stopped getting manicures, buying clothes and eating out. “We had to really pour all those funds into the company. Plus, having a family with children is very difficult to go that long without having a salary. We have to make a lot of sacrifices,” Price says. Kanarys officially launched in December 2019. “When we first started, we would have meetings with decision-makers, and sometimes companies would just flat out say, “Is this even a problem?” King says. They finally started receiving salaries when the pandemic hit. Companies started laying-off people and previous interest in Kanarys waned. So they quit taking salaries again to preserve cash and make sure their employees get paid. That all changed in the summer of 2020. Beginning May 8, when protests broke out over the death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, more than 15 million people participated in protests against systemic racism throughout the year. “It became a rallying cry by corporations and CEOs and executive leaders saying, ‘We’re behind the social justice campaign. And not only that, are we gonna make sure everything’s lined up within our own organization for DEI,’” Carter says. Race isn’t the only issue Kanarys addresses. The company also compiles data points for inclusionary practices regarding veterans, gender, sexuality and people with disabilities. Recently, Kanarys was one of 10 companies accepted into a Google startup accelerator. The company participated in Morgan Stanley’s Multicultural Innovation Lab. “I think it was that moment for me when I said, “OK, we have outside validation, I mean validation from a big-tech rockstar that believes in what we are doing,” she says. Kanarys ended 2020 on a high note. They raised $3 million in seed funding, the initial investments to get the company running, increasing their funding to $4.6 million. The team expanded to 23 employees. Their client list now includes Neiman Marcus, PepsiCo, Coca Cola, Dallas Mavericks and Yum Brands. At this point, their client retention is 100%. The only thing left to do is keep growing. “We’re looking to grow, but honestly, to raise money in order to grow at the rate that we need to grow,” Carter says. “We’re small but mighty.“ Next is raising Series A funding, the second round of venture funding that typically brings in $2 million to $15 million. Carter says hiring more tech, data and salespeople is the hope. But for Kanarys, success is shifting the culture in the workplace. “When we started receiving messages from employees in the companies we were working with thanking us, those messages are still one of the highlights of the work we do,” Price says. “Because I know that Kanarys is helping make people feel less alone and confident.” “True equity — I think that that is what most people want.”

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KOSTAS IOANNIDIS came to the United States from Greece in 1976 with years of experience in the restaurant industry. He started in kitchens in some of the best restaurants in his home country while he was still in his midteens. When he moved to Dallas, he found work at Vince’s Seafood, which was located near Bachman Lake. After being there a couple years, he took a job at a steakhouse and stayed about nine years. Around that time, Ioannidis was offered the opportunity to go into business with a partner, another Greek man, and open a restaurant in East Dallas. “Both of us, we started w i t h v e r y, v e r y l i t t l e m o n e y,” h e s ay s . “ We just put a lot of personal work, so that’s how we started.” The location they chose, 4914 Greenville Ave., had housed a pizza place. They transformed it into Kostas Cafe, which opened in January 1987 with little interest from the public. Only a handful of customers showed up on its first day, but Ioannidis and his namesake restaurant remained. The other Ioannidis brothers, Zissis and Dimitri, opened two Kostas Cafe locations in Plano. Only one of them, which started about 17 years ago, remains. Kostas Cafe is a small place that screams Greek from the moment a foot steps in the door. Greek

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Opposite page: Grilled octopus and the Kostas favorite salad with lamb chops and broiled shrimp. Left: Kostas Ioannidis opened Kostas Cafe in 1987.

music is always played. Photos of Greece are hung on the walls. And the Greek language can be heard from some of the 11 staff members and customers alike. Since the beginning, Ioannidis has worked to create an authentic Greek restaurant. White tablecloths are used, just like they are in the best restaurants in his native country and the U.S. “When you get inside, you know you’re in a Greek restaurant right away,” he says. The menu, curated from Ioannidis’ years of experience in Greek restaurants, offers all the traditional dishes: gyros, saganaki, dolmas, moussaka and more. Lamb kebabs and lamb chops, spiced with pepper and garlic, are some of

the most popular choices for dinner service. Ioannidis says those selections are his favorites, too. For lunch, many customers choose Greek salads with chicken or chicken lemonato, where the meat is lightly sauteed in a lemon butter. Customers also rave about the soups, including the avgolemono, an egg and lemon soup. And many diners pair their entrees with the restaurant’s Greek wines. The tzatziki is so popular that a company based in Chicago contacted Ioannidis to discuss getting the dip — made with yogurt, cucumber, garlic and olive oil — on the market. When we spoke with him, Ioannidis wasn’t sure what would come of the meeting, but he was open to the opportunity. Spices are purchased from Chicago-based supplier Kronos Foods, but meat and seafood are bought from local suppliers. Fish come whole and are butchered in house. “The food is very healthy and very tasty,” he says. Loyalty has gone hand in hand with Kostas Cafe’s longevity in our neighborhood. The pandemic forced one employee to leave, but he had been with the restaurant for more than two decades. One chef still at the restaurant has been working there for about 15 years. The same loyalty is held by the customers. Some of them have been dining there about once a week for the past 35 years. “Each restaurant has their own touch,” Ioannidis says. “But we keep it very authentic.” Kostas Cafe, 4914 Greenville Ave., 214.987.3225, kostascafe.com Lunch: 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Monday-Friday Dinner: 5-9:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 5-10:30 p.m. Friday, noon10:30 p.m. Saturday

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y name is Marie Zarate and I am 53 years old. This may sound crazy, but there isn’t a time when I can remember “not knowing” my husband Frank. We joke about it all the time, but it is actually true. We probably were first introduced to each other when I was around 4 years old and he was 7. My dad was his little league baseball coach here in East Dallas. My dad started a team for my brothers when they were little, back in the early ’70s. They were the Tigers. When my husband joined the team, I was always at the park during practic-

es and games. He was a year younger than my brother, so they were in middle school and high school at the same time and were friends. Frank and I were born and reared in East Dallas. I attended Stonewall Jackson Elementary, now Mockingbird Elementary, and he attended Rober t E. Lee Elementary, now Geneva Heights Elementary. We both attended J.L. Long and Woodrow. I started my freshman year at Woodrow in 1982, and Frank was a senior. Then I was seeing him every day at school. But, he was the big man on campus and I was a little freshman. We joke about FEBRUARY 2022

that too! He was always friendly to me. We hung out, at times, at lunch, i n a g ro u p a n d g re ete d each other passing in the hallways. Everyone l i ke d Fra n k , e s p e c i a l l y t h e g i r l s. Th a t i s w h e n my crush on him started. When he graduated in 1983, we would occasionally see each othe r a ro u n d tow n . I n t h e spring of my senior year, m y b ro t h e r s re t u r n e d home from serving in the military to join an adult baseball league with my dad as the coach. That’s when we started to run in the same circle again. My crush reignited. Finally, in August 1990, he asked me out to lunch and we have been together ever since. Frank and I were married May 15, 1993, at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. We h a v e t w o c h i l d re n , Marissa, 25, and Steve, 23; two Siberian huskies, Alaska and Nova; and a ca t , C o co. B o t h of o u r c h i l d re n a l s o a tte n d e d Long and Woodrow, and we still live in East Dallas. M a r r y i n g Fra n k w a s the best thing I ever did, along with having my kids. He makes me laugh eve r y s i n g l e d ay. H e i s truly my best friend, and I consider myself ex t re m e l y l u c k y to ca l l him my husband and the father of my children. We have been happily married for almost 29 years and have known each other for nearly 50 years. — As told by Marie Zarate

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acation with a group of long-time friends — and after a few cocktails — I raised my glass and un-

equivocally asser ted an emotional and heartfelt “I love you” to the other seven adults in my company. I said it not because I had loose lips from indulging in one too many, but because I truly felt it. I do not believe in token offers. I do not offer them, and I almost always accept them. Tokenism has a specific place in my playbook of life. I believe in giving what you have — your time, your talents, an offer to pay for lunch — only if it’s genuine. If it’s not, odds are high that I’ll take you up on it. So, when I told these amazing people who are surrogate parents to my children that I love them, they knew I meant it. At this point, we had known each other for close to six years and through experiences that bind people for life, including supporting each other from births to deaths, kindergarten to middle school, layoffs to new jobs, and in sickness and in health, I was shocked when one of the seven wouldn’t, er … couldn’t say it back. To say that I was affronted is an understatement. I looked at Robert and asked him pointedly, “Bobby, do you love me?”

and during the day when you can’t pick

what, Bobby? I know you love me and ev-

Robert, clearly discomforted, re-

up your kid from school. He is solid, de-

eryone here. That’s good enough.”

plied, “Mita, I am very fond of you and

pendable and stoic. But one to share his

consider you a close, personal friend …”

feelings? No, not him. My upbringing was similar in this regard.

great weight. But feeling love holds so

The cultural norm in our Indian immigrant

much more value. I often tell my children,

“… that you love,” I added. “You are indeed someone that I hold

And it was. Yes, words matter, and those three simple ones, “I love you,” can have

household did not include expressing effu-

“Sorry is an action word.” It’s not enough

“… and love,” I finished.

sive emotion. And while I always and 100%

to apologize, but one must take account-

We played this cat-and-mouse game

felt loved by my parents, I can’t recall a

ability and modify behavior.

intermittently from the early evening to

single time in my childhood that my par-

Love, too, is an action word. And what is

well past midnight. And after everyone

ents uttered, “I love you” to my brother or

actionable is Robert’s friendship, support

woke the next day, we started up again.

me — or to each other. But once I was on

and generosity over these many years.

Well, in full disclosure, I continued to

my own and free from Indian expectations

The whole exchange kept on for ages

badger, and Robert was kind enough

of appropriate behavior, that is, I became

to our own amusement and of our friends

to deflect instead of choosing to curse

“more American,” I found it liberating to

— the proverbial inside joke that wouldn’t

me out.

relay my genuine feelings.

die. Until it did. Robert turned to me one

dear …” he continued.

Perhaps this was the gift I was trying

I learned Robert grew up in a home where sentiment was sealed relatively

to give Robert.

tight, and fortitude reigned. Robert is

A few days later and when our vacation

the person you call in the middle of the

neared its end, I closed our long-running

night when your Uber doesn’t show up

conversation with a sincere, “You know

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evening after a few cocktails, and said, “I love you, Mita.” And I knew he meant it.

— Written by Mita Havlick

alifornian Christi, a bubbly young dancer who happens

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manda Perry says she’s unlucky

to 10 days. And you’re gonna get up early in

cancer and was beginning chemotherapy, was

with cars.

the morning, and you’re gonna have several

hosting a wig party. Unknown to Amanda, Steve

Her carpool buddy, Sandra,

practices, so you don’t have time to do

had talked to her family about proposing before

decided she was going to join rowing. Amanda

anything,” she says. “But you can hang out

they arrived.

figured she might as well join rowing, too, since

with the other rowing coaches and talk about

she would be at practice anyway. So Amanda

practices.” They had dinner together a few times over

came together to celebrate my sister and us

the course of several years. Finally, Steve asked

getting engaged as a kind of a hidden agenda.”

walked on the Ohio State University rowing team in 2001. Then Sandra quit. Amanda rowed

Amanda out officially.

throughout college. Amanda’s sophomore year, she parked her

“He was sweating bullets. Of course, I said yes. We’re best friends,” she says. “They [family]

But in 2006, right before her first date with Steve, her car was stolen.

The Perrys were married in December 2012. After following each other’s careers throughout the country (there are only so many collegiate

car and headed to rowing practice. Her car

To keep her date with Steve, car-less

rowing coach jobs), Steve was invited to coach

was one of 11 set on fire during a post-game

Amanda, who was now the rowing coach

the junior national team. One of the rowers’

riot. Not long after that, a dump truck ran into

at Brown, took the train from Providence,

fathers asked if Steve would like to come to

her next car.

Rhode Island, to Boston just as a snow

Dallas and coach.

Meanwhile, her coaches felt her rowing

storm started. She arrived in Boston with

Steve asked if there was a position for

scores could earn her a spot on the national

just enough time to catch the last bus to

Amanda. There was. So they moved to Dallas

team. But instead of gambling her reconstructed

Hanover before 20 inches of snow fell, and

in 2017 to coach together for the first time,

shoulder, she pivoted to coaching.

everything shut down.

joining the Dallas United Crew.

“It was a gorgeous scene. We just had a

The collegiate rowing world is small. Amanda knew Dartmouth head coach Steve Perry’s

wonderful time hanging out,” Amanda says.

assistant coach. Some of the staff at Dartmouth

That date led to others. They wound up

and Ohio State had worked at Rutgers, where

dating long-distance for six years before flying

Amanda’s national team coach was the head

out to her parents’ house.

coach. So it was just a matter of time before Steve and Amanda met at winter training.

“It’s actually a bit of a bittersweet topic at

Now they carpool together to White Rock Lake before sunrise, six days a week to coach junior rowing teams. “It’s a perk to be able to work with my husband and best friend every day,” Amanda says.

the time,” Amanda says.

“You might be at winter training for a week

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“I think I knew I wanted to marry Amir

Hashambhai broke up

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when I was probably 18 years old,” she

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what we wanted out of life. And it’s weird

t h e y w e re t e e n a ge r s . T h e b re a k u p

cleaning business. One of their shops

because we are complete opposites.”

lasted two weeks, and after deciding

is located close to SMU, so they would

They still go to the same mosque on

they were made for each other, they got

drive together in the morning. Anam

Friday nights, and Sunday is for football

back together.

would hang out with him in the mornings

and walks around White Rock Lake. Along

“I knew he was the one because he

and then head to campus before going

with working at the dry cleaners and at

just brought a different light and life to

to work at Park Place Dealership. She’d

the dealership (she’s marketing director

me,” Anam says.

pick Amir up at the end of day and drive

now), they flip houses together on the

home.

side.

Anam and Amir first met in the parking l ot of a n ow- c l ose d C i c i ’s t h ro u g h a mutual friend. She was 15 and he was

“It was kind of our weird way of dating in a very busy life,” Anam says.

16. They saw each other every Friday

Fo r t h e i r 1 1 t h a n n i v e r s a r y, A m i r

night at the mosque and played football

convinced Anam to go to Cancun for

on Sundays.

Thanksgiving instead of going to Chicago

The first official date was at an ice

to see family in 2017. He proposed.

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W H E N JASO N GU Y N ES BO U G H T his 1,200-square-foot home near Lower Greenville in 2005, he was leasing out rooms to his friends. But then he got married, and his wife moved in. Next they had a child, and it didn’t take long to realize they needed more space. They looked at their large backyard and carport and saw potential. “And the grand idea was, just tear the carport down. Put a garage in it. What guy doesn’t want to have a garage, right?” Guynes says. “And then if we’re going to build a garage, let’s build some living space on top of that, and we can rent it out and kind of help subsidize the cost of building the garage. And maybe there would be some office space or something in there as well.” But that idea was scrapped because they realized it would be too expensive, even with Guynes’ dad serving as general contractor for free. So years later, when a nearby home with a 523-square-foot accessory dwelling unit (ADU) came on the market, the Guyneses snatched it up. They converted the storage shed into auxiliary space where Guynes can work, and the ADU is right above it. The ADU functioned as an Airbnb for about two weeks. Then Guynes realized he didn’t have enough time to do the necessary maintenance to use the ADU as a short-term rental (STR). They started leasing it to a veterinary technician who wanted to live close to work. Late last year, she told Guynes she planned to move out, so now the furnished ADU will be rented to traveling nurses and other professionals in 13-week increments. ADUs and STRs aren’t limited to our neighborhood, and they have been the subject of discussions for years, including among Dallas’ governmental bodies. In 2018, the Dallas City Council approved an amendment to allow ADUs as rental properties either by the Board of Adjustment’s granting a special exception to allow one or by an ADU overlay, where units are permitted in a mapped area. The Board of Adjustment approved two ADUs in January 2020. There are likely more in Dallas, according to a

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City case report, but there was no way to count them because no building permits had been issued. Then in February 2020, the Housing & Homelessness Solutions Committee asked staff to research a “ byright” and “opt-out” process for ADUs. A “ by-right” option would allow an ADU to be built on a property with a single-family use in any area that allows a single-family use, unless specifically prohibited. An “opt-out” amendment would allow neighborhoods to create an overlay that would stop ADUs from being constructed “by-right.” Feedback was solicited from the public, but at a Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee meeting in October 2020, officials decided to hold off on potential code amendments. District 9 City Council member Paula Blackmon says disc ussions about ADUs have been paused to deal with STRs. “We wanted to get those (STRs) regulated first because some ADUs may become a short-term rental,” she says. In November 2021, a task force led by co-chairs Mayor Pro Tem Chad West and District 7 City Council member Adam Bazaldua was formed to discuss how to regulate STRs. Around the same time, the City Plan Commission was considering how to define STRs. At the Dec. 2 meeting, the commissioners authorized a public hearing to consider amending the Dallas Development Code, sending the matter to the Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee. Many Dallas residents at the meeting shared their experiences, largely negative, of sharing neighborhoods with STRs. They reported unwanted noise, crime and violence. And properties whose renters are quiet can be problematic, too, one speaker said, because they can interrupt neighborhood ties. Complaints about ADUs have been different. In District 9, Blackmon says she’s concerned about density, especially because parking space has to be

provided for residents. She also says she wants to make sure the building quality is the same as what would be expected of a main house. But Blackmon recognizes that ADUs can provide more affordable housing options, particularly when they’re rented for at least 30 days per tenant. Regulations are needed to ensure ADUs are built well and fit their neighborhoods, but Blackmon says a big complaint she’s heard about ADUs is that they’re “a bear to navigate through to get one done at City Hall, and then the fees that we have is just crazy.”

“If we’re going to build a garage, let’s build some living space on top of that, and we can rent it out.” Guynes, who spoke at public meetings in support of ADUs in 2018 and 2019, says he hasn’t heard many complaints about his property. One neighbor asked Guynes to make sure the renter would stop parking in front of their house, and that was the biggest issue he’s had. “Basically people were just complaining about parking,” Guynes says. “Parking’s not really a big deal down here. My tenant parks in front of our house every day, and I don’t think she’s putting anyone else out when she’s doing it. If there was an ADU in the back of every house in (the Belmont Addition Conservation District), then yeah, it might be a problem. But that’s never going to happen.”

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guest walks into The Tickle Bar, they get a glass of champagne or bourbon, and a pink iced cookie. After being led to a millennial pink, gauze tent with twinkle lights, guests are tickled. It’s a strange concept, especially since Kimberly Haley-Coleman launched The Tickle Bar amid a pandemic where distancing is encouraged. She wanted to provide jobs for employees of her volunteer vacation nonprofit Globe Aware, which came to a standstill March 2020. “I was trying to find a way to provide jobs and joy in a very quick way,” she says. The gamble worked. The appointment-only bar is fully booked. The five tickle technicians, who have backgrounds in massage therapy and hair, handle about five to 10 appointments daily each week. Technicians are dispatched to bachelorette parties and other private events at homes. “There’s kind of a hunger for human touch,” she says. No, there’s not anything illegal happening. “It kind of makes us giggle,”Haley-Coleman says. “We leaned into that a bit, because it’s helped us in terms of press. But we don’t.” Hair play or back tickle sessions are either 25 or 50 minutes. Different types of techniques - like scratching, tracing , feathers and other objects - are used.

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en d i H a rd a ge wa s t h e l ea d s pa educator at the Aveda Institute at The Shops at Park Lane when she came across a word: misaotra. It means “thank you” in the Malagasy language, spoken by the people of Madagascar. She had already been thinking about leaving the company to start her own venture, and heard a voice that told her to open a spa and call it “Misaotra.”

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“When I saw the word, and the voice said ‘That’s it,’ that was it,” she says. Even though the name is hard to pronounce and spell, she went with it. Misaotra Beauty Sanctuary opened in Hillside Village in 2016. Hardage, who lives within walking distance of Winfrey Point at White Rock Lake, is a licensed aesthetician and cosmetologist. She specializes in gua sha, a traditional Chinese medicine technique that’s used

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for face lifts, as well as folk plant medicine and holistic n u t r i t i o n . A n d s h e c ra f ts four health-based teas. Her clients, most of t h e m wo m e n , f re q u e n t l y re q u e s t fa c i a l m a s s a ge s incorporating Dien Chan, a kind of facial reflexology, and gua sha sessions from H a rd a ge, w h o m t h ey ca l l “mystical.” A c o u p l e o f H a rd a ge ’s primary goals are to show clients that aging is a privilege and to debunk mainstream beauty ideals. “ I t ’s f i l te re d ,” H a rd a ge says of the image of beauty wo m e n a re s h ow n i n t h e media. “It’s edited heavily. It’s not real, and so we’re constantly battling something that doesn’t even ex i st, a n d t h a t c re a te s a not-so-happy person.” Hardage, now in her 40s, says she feels better in her life than ever and wants to help clients feel the same way. S h e s ays s h e h a s a natural talent for hearing w h a t t h e s k i n h a s to say and what it needs to heal. Aside from her business, H a rd a ge i s o rg a n i z i n g a women’s gathering circle g ro u p c a l l e d W i l d L i g h t . She plans to begin the group, which will facilitate connections and suppor t among women in our community, later this year. “ I t ’s n o t re a l l y h ow we look,” she says. “It’s how we feel.”

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ristin Barton, 39, is a small-town girl from Ennis, Texas. She played varsity tennis and graduated high school valedictorian before majoring in finance at Texas A&M. Barton headed to New York City to work at Goldman Sachs, but her heart was somewhere else. “I realized long-term, I had different professional goals,” Barton says. She had quietly been dreaming of opening her own day spa and left Wall Street to work at a Manhattan spa. On a trip back home to Texas, she hosted her sister’s baby shower at a local spa. Barton felt the spa experience needed more than just services. “I wanted to open a spa that created more of an experience for guests and gave people a place to relax and enjoy special moments with loved ones,” she says. After relocating to Texas, Barton and her husband lived on Knox Henderson before moving to Forest Hills. She noticed there weren’t many spas in the neighborhood. So she opened Vivian’s Boutique Spa, named after her niece, in June 2017.

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“It’s been a wonderful experience to open my dream business in my own community,” she says. The décor is custom down to the craftsman-made foot-ritual chairs. The products are toxin-free, natural and organic from McKinney-based FarmHouse Fresh and Australia-based Jurlique. Many of the ingredients are food — think real cocoa, raspberries and honey — which influences the rotating, seasonal services menu. Summer means a watermelon sugar scrub and fall is cinnamon sugar funnel cake, just in time for the State Fair. “We begin with an inspirational starting point, then build the treatments from there,” Barton says. “Creating new services is a lot of fun, and it’s something we look forward to each season.” The spa discontinued its nail services because of increased demand for facials and massages. Space was reutilized to expand the lounge area and add more treatment rooms. “I’m a strong believer that incorporating moments of rest and self-care into your lifestyle are extremely important and beneficial to your overall health,” she says. 5420 Ross Ave., viviansdallas.com, 214.484.4714

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drowsy copperhead suddenly strikes. A wolf spider sits quietly, her abdomen covered with hundreds of her babies. Mud dauber wasps work tirelessly on a river bank, rolling perfect little spheres to add to their nest. East Dallas, it’s all happening right under your nose, and neighbor Nick Mirro wants you to see it. Welcome to Dallas Nature Channel, his streaming service of short nature documentaries shot in macro — closeup — video. Considering that Mirro has an undergrad degree in organismal biology with a focus on botany and zoology, a doctorate in chiropractic, a designation as a master naturalist and a fascination with videography, it seems almost predestined that he would conceive of and create nature documentaries. “There’s no question,” he admits, “that I’m an over-the-top perfectionist and marveller of nature’s interesting secrets. These seem to mesh nicely with macro videography, which at its best is very exacting and revealing.” So you have to know your arachnids from your isopods to enjoy these videos, right? Not at all. They are intended for a wide, all-ages audience — though nature nerds will love them, too. Oh, a special shout out to teachers: “Getting these videos in front of students is a huge goal for us.” Mirro operates with a rotating volunteer crew: Ashton Tassin, Lauren

Nick Mirro wants locals to learn about wildlife through his films. Photography by Corrie Aune.

Patterson, Larissa Popkes and Kevin Church. He explains, “Our mission is to showcase prominent Dallas-area naturalists, interesting wild spaces and fascinating wild organisms. We work to show beautiful and highly detailed footage of easily overlooked wildlife. We intend to inspire viewers by delivering stunning 4K footage, high-quality audio and fascinating insights.” Dallas Nature Channel evolved from Mirro’s YouTube channel, a roaring success with 7 million views and 5,000 subscribers, and from posts on Vimeo, which will remain as the streaming source of the DNC videos. One of the videos you’ll see on the channel is a cautionary tale for pet owners. Mirro shot the footage at Harry Moss Park where he encountered a coyote sitting quietly in a field. But when an off-leash dog wandered too close for comfort, the coyote showed his dominance and ran off the domestic pup in short order. No injuries, fortunately, just a reminder of the wisdom of the leash.

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Another popular video — and Mirro’s favorite — revolves around a wolf spider. Buckle up if you suffer from even the slightest bit of arachnophobia: You’re going to see an extreme close up of eight eyes, sharp fangs and hundreds of baby spiders. Mirro’s narration of the video reveals his obvious delight in stumbling upon such a beauty and discovering those babies on her abdomen. She even cooperated with the filming, seemingly showing off her young for the camera. Mirro excitedly recalls, “She executed a 360 degree revolution, never leaving the focal plane. I’d have thought she’d prefer to keep her young completely hidden, yet she did the exact opposite. An enormous camera rig 10 inches away and her effect seemed calm. Next, I snapped on a super close-up lens so that she was now 4 inches away. She calmly held her ground!” Mirro remains in awe. “That video still gives me goosebumps,” he says. “It was a one-in-a-million encounter.” Another great moment for Mirro oc-

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curred in his video of master naturalist and amateur entomologist Laura Kimberly. “We struggled to get good footage of mud daubers creek-side, gathering mud into perfectly spherical mini marbles. I returned solo the next day and lucked into perfect light and busy mud daubers. I had no idea how good the footage was until I got back home.” These close encounters with nature are not without their hazards. Mirro was apparently in touch with his inner Steve Irwin when he encountered a copperhead and edged a bit too close for the snake’s comfort, which struck, narrowly missing him. Despite the occasional close call, Mirro maintains his utter enthusiasm for filming and sharing nature. His dream video would showcase Dallas’s creeks. “Dallas has a gorgeous network of creeks, some carved into limestone. I’d love to make a video showing the incredible invertebrate wildlife in these creeks,” he says. ”We actually have a few freshwater sponges, hydrozoans (related to jellyfish), shrimp, tons of mollusks and a wide variety of truly amazing aquatic arthropods.” For now, Mirro is focused on projects around East Dallas, including one near the Bath House Cultural Center. “This spring, we are going to feature the plants and arthropods of the Blackland Prairie at White Rock Lake, hopefully with Sam Kieschnick,” he says. He adds, “We’re also planning to feature White Rock Creek in the future. It’s a top-notch location for kayakers, naturalists and fishers. We want to get the word out. Norbuck Park is another similarly good prairie location we might feature in the future.” Mirro clearly loves the natural beauty all around us, and he wants to inspire us to see it, too. “I want to bring all of this into the lives of urbanites, who may know little about natural history. I want to share amazing stories that are playing out right in their neighborhoods.” To view videos: dallasnaturechannel.com For more information: info@dallasnaturechannel.com

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he BlackBerry became obsolete last month. Not the fruit — the handheld mobile device favored by technology adopters for a dozen years or so at the beginning this century. Just eight years ago, there were 85 million users worldwide. But the advent of Android and Apple devices took the market by storm. On Jan. 4 of this year, the proprietary platform was turned off, and the BlackBerry was no more. It may be that the Blackberry company rested on its laurels and didn’t adapt to new technology, thinking it would always be relevant. Like the buggy-whip carriage industry before it that faced the invention of the automobile, that industry forgot it was in the transportation industry, not the horse-drawn wagon business. It may be that BlackBerry forgot it was in the personal communication industry, not the BlackBerry business. I’ve been thinking about the BlackBerry development in light of my announced retirement from the pastorate just two days afterward. It’s a reminder that time waits for no one, and change is the nature of reality. Whether we’re ready or not, time marches on, and sooner or later our time is up. Whether life itself, careers or parenting, life is full of transitions. It’s best if we know that every step of the way and continue to grow day by day. Every seven years or so, cellular mitosis completes a cycle in our bodies making us new people, whether we know it or not. If we understand what’s happening and accept it as the way we are made, we can adapt with the times and thrive through them. Embracing transition with enthusiasm for

what comes next, rather than regret for what was, is a strategy we are wise to lean into. I am grateful for what has been in my calling. The church I have served has changed over the more than three decades I served it. I changed with it. It’s the same church, yet different. I am the same person, yet different, too. Thank God on both accounts. Someone told me years ago that we should all prepare for the next chapter of our lives before the end of the one we are writing now. Professionally and personally, it’s smart to have something to go to, not just something to go from. I have tried to follow that counsel. I am a minister for life, but I have been a pastor for only a season of it. I have more to do and am excited about what’s next. The poet Robert Browning wrote these memorable lines: “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, ‘A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!” Someone has counted the times the words “do not be afraid” occur in in the Bible in one form or another — 365. Apparently, we need to be reminded at least once a day. GEORGE MASON is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, president of Faith Commons

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