2019 January Preston Hollow

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A recent editorial called the parking garage at Preston Center the relic of “a suburban past that ... [we] should have left behind long ago.” Because of an agreement between the city and investors and owners, “we have had stagnation that has stymied the potential to transform not just Preston Center but the larger Northwest Highway corridor into a truly urban part of Dallas,” with residential density, walkability and public transportation options.

Let’s translate: Can we just find a parking space to get a haircut, go to the orthodontist, get a burger or bagel? All of which is stunningly difficult when it comes to parking.

Here’s the best advice from neighbors:

“Sherry Lane seems less crowded for parking.”

-Yvonne Crum

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CHANNEL 8’S CYNTHIA IZAGUIRRE

This Thomas Jefferson High School graduate thrives on TV, twins and a new addition to her family 

Interview by LISA KRESL / Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

Channel 8’s Cynthia Izaguirre grew up in apartments formerly at Webb Chapel and Forest Lane. She graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1993 and the University of North Texas. She is co-anchor for the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. news at WFAAChannel 8. Since 2011, she has produced and anchored the segments that help abused and neglected children find homes. Izaguirre is married to husband, Jeremy, who she calls “Captain Awesome.” They have a daughter and son who are 6-year-old twins. Recently, she’s been on leave after adopting a boy from foster care. Her husband left his career as an architect to be a stay-at-home father, and she is due to return to work Jan. 2.

What are your memories of Thomas Jefferson High School?

The teachers there are a big reason I went on to become a successful professional. They helped me achieve the goals I set. I’m a proud product of the Dallas Independent School District. I have lots of great memories about T.J. The biggest memories were the extracurricular activities. Band, all the pep rallies, band trips, summer band, theater. Mr. Tom Woody was my band director. It was just a great experience at T.J.

What instrument did you play?

I played the flute, and I was drum major the last two years of high school.

What are your memories of growing up in that neighborhood?

I still remember the carnival that used to come every summer in the parking lot of Northtown Mall. I had a lot of friends who lived in the Walnut Hill area. We used to ride our bikes all over the place. My two girlfriends and I sit down and say, “What were we thinking?

Why were we crossing Walnut Hill at the age of 11 on our bikes?” But that’s the way it was back then. It was a safe neighborhood that unfortunately got knocked down for real estate.

Tell me about your career now.

I am the co-anchor at WFAA-TV. It is a goal that I set when I was in middle school, and here I am today. I feel blessed to work at the station I grew up watching.

What accomplishment are you most proud of in your career?

Using my job to help foster children. I have a passion for helping people who don’t have a voice, and that’s the great thing about journalism. We can do that in our jobs. And what I have done, I feel is now a ministry.

Why that issue?

I feel I can understand the feeling of abandonment. My father was not with us for seven years of my life. We have since reestablished a relationship, but for those seven years, being raised by a single mother, I realize now how much I needed a father and how much that impacted my life. I think that’s why I want to help children who don’t have either parent. I can help them when we’re doing a “Wednesday’s Child” report. Sometimes I’ll tell the children I can understand them because my father was gone, and I realize now how painful that was.

What’s the most challenging thing you’ve overcome in your career?

Dealing with the monstrosities that we cover. I have had to take measures to get all that negativity out of my head. I listen to audio books. Making sure that I work out is huge in staying healthy both physically and mentally. When Byron Harris, legendary journalist at WFAA, was leaving, I asked him for advice. He said, “No. 1, always make sure that you hold someone’s hands whom you love. And No. 2, exercise and keep yourself strong both physically and mentally.” And that was great advice.

“My instinct as a journalist is I’ve got to be at work. I’ve got to be with my team.”

What’s it like being on leave?

It’s been challenging because I had other issues pop up. I had an emergency hysterectomy a week into my adoption leave. Having a hysterectomy is no joke. I had severe endometriosis and didn’t even know it. Having a hysterectomy and young children in the house is challenging. You can’t hold them. I’m recovering, and I’m doing well. But there’s always that guilt that I’m not at work. We had midterm elections and the flooding. My instinct as a journalist is I’ve got to be at work. I’ve got to be with my team. I have had to pray over it and remind myself that family comes first.

What advice would you give to your younger self?

Don’t worry so much. There is nothing that worrying is going to add to your life.

Have you ever experienced discrimination?

No. Perhaps it’s because of the way I was raised. My mom’s strength is unbelievable. Both my parents immigrated here from Ecuador. My mom’s focus was always on working hard and raising her daughters. If discrimination did happen, she didn’t notice it. And if it did happen, I didn’t notice it either because I’ve always been focused on doing what my mom drilled into us every day: getting an education.

How would you like to be remembered?

As someone who cared.

This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

Legend has it that when Mark Cuban arrived in Dallas, he had less than $100. More than 80 businesses, “Shark Tank” and three phones later, Cuban is a wealth of financial tips. And yes, he does turn off all three of his phones when he’s sleeping. At least, he thinks they’re off.

What’s your No.1 tip on diversifying a portfolio?

Don’t. Diversification suggests that you have the knowledge base to invest in a cross section of stocks or bonds or XYZ. It’s hard enough to find one stock that will work, let alone a full portfolio that hedges your risk and offers sufficient upside.

How do you make the best of your money in Preston Hollow?

I enjoy it. I have a great home with a yard for the kids to play on. I go to lunch at True Food Kitchen, eat poke, get my hair done and more — all in Preston Hollow. Everything is convenient.

When’s the best time to start a business? When you’re young and don’t have anything to lose. After that, it’s when you know you are prepared and understand what you are doing. If you aren’t sure, you aren’t ready.

What are the top three books you read in 2018?

“Citizen Cohn,” the book about Donald Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn. It’s fascinating how similar they are. “That’s What She Said,” by Joanne Lipman, a book that explores diversity and gender roles and how men can better work with women. “The Once and

Future Worker,” a book that challenges the notion of the country chasing GDP growth as opposed to increasing production and work opportunities that are more fulfilling and further reaching.

What’s been your favorite business venture thus far?

Alyssa’s Healthy Cookies. I helped the founder go from being near bankruptcy to having an incredible product that is growing sales and profits monthly.

If someone wanted to be on “Shark Tank,” what shouldn’t they do? Talk about themselves more than the business. There is a great business rule that says, “The longer the backstory, the worse the business.”

What’s the best business tip someone gave you?

Sales cures all. No business has ever succeeded without sales.

What’s it like shooting on the Mavs’ court on game day?

A dream come true. For me, hearing the ball go through the net is the ultimate stress release. And doing it on an NBA court is an incredible feeling.

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DOUGH, A DEAR

FORMER MRS. DALLAS, FOUNDER OF THE DOUGH DOUGH, IS ONE SMART COOKIE

Interview by CHRISTIAN WELCH / Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

GINA GINSBURG gave the neighborhood a gift: the chance to eat raw cookie dough without the risk of salmonella. But before she became queen of The Dough Dough, she was a wedding stationery creator, a commercial jet flier and the owner of The Hair Bar. She’s currently moonlighting as a gemology student, her true passion. A former Mrs. Dallas, she is also known for the Ginsburg Family Great Lawn at Klyde Warren Park, donated by her ex-husband’s family. So why does a Minnesotan with a penchant for business turn to cookie dough? For her kids, of course.

Why did you get into the cookie dough business?

I wanted to start another business while getting my degree and this time do something that I could incorporate my kids into. Each week my boys and I would make cookies, brownies or cake. I feel like everybody’s childhood fantasy is to be able to eat the batter raw. I was no exception to that, nor are my kids. With the cookie dough craze, we wanted to take some of my family recipes and my kids’ creativity and come up with safe-to-eat cookie dough that my boys and I, and certainly the public, would love. Something to bring them back to their childhood. So The Dough Dough was born last August.

“They say to surround yourself with like-minded individuals, and I’ve really found that in Preston Hollow.”

Where does your business acumen come from?

My dad always worked for himself. He had a few different interior design companies. I always admired that. I loved the idea of starting a business, watching it grow and starting again. Seeing him succeed through adversity was inspiring. People tell him no, that his idea wouldn’t work or that he couldn’t do something. Then I would watch him create a successful business by surrounding himself with good people.

You have your commercial pilot’s license. Why did you never become a pilot?

I always had a fear of flying. I thought if I could understand the aerodynamics and thermodynamics that went with flight, I would be able to get over my fear. I took a flight lesson, and I fell in love with it. It became my passion.

I spent about two and a half years studying to become a commercial jet pilot. I thought about being a corporate Flexjet pilot, something like that, but the industry is still very much a boys’ club. For a female to break that glass ceiling is still extremely rare. I didn’t want to overcome that much adversity and possibly feel unfulfilled.

Tell me about your time in the pageant circuit. I was Mrs. Dallas. I was going to compete in Mrs. Texas, but I withdrew. I realized I was doing it for the wrong reasons. It was my attempt to try and grab the spotlight. My husband at the time, he was always the one in the spotlight. I wanted that attention. But I realized that I didn’t need that. I could stand on my own.

What advice would you give to your younger self?

Don’t listen to the naysayers. Believe in yourself. You can, you will and you should.

What do critics say about you?

You’d have to ask them! I have high expectations of myself, and I demand the same from those around me. I would say that I am not one to be underestimated.

How would you describe Preston Hollow? I have lived in Preston Hollow a good amount of my adult life except for the five years we spent in Highland Park. It really feels like home. It has kind of a small-town feel. The people here are lovely, loyal, dedicated people. They say to surround yourself with likeminded individuals, and I’ve really found that in Preston Hollow.

It’s not like home. It is home.

TOLLWAY TREE HUGGERS

CALL IT THE GREAT DEFORESTATION near Forest Lane.

Quincy Lane neighbors and Hillcrest High School sweethearts Richard and Bonnie Brown were outraged that Oncor planned to cut down nearly a mile of trees along the east side of the Dallas North Tollway between Forest Lane and Harvest Hill.

Some trees were cut down and then the Browns, whose home backs up to the Tollway, started organizing.

“I don’t think lying down in front of bulldozers or chaining ourselves to trees will help,” Richard says.

Instead, Richard met with representatives of Oncor, the North Texas Tollway Authority and Dallas City Council member Jennifer Staubach Gates about the situation. Oncor representatives explained that the trees must come down so the company could replace old transmission towers with new ones. Oncor owns the easement. However, the trees, which are 40- to 50-feet-tall, were planted to ameliorate the noise from the Tollway.

“We learned the scope of the work that Oncor was doing, and it just blew me away,” Richard says. “It sounded at first that they were just going to trim trees, and then suddenly they were just going to clear cut everything.”

In a letter to the Browns, which was then distributed to members of the Melshire Homeowners Association, Andrea Sanders, regional area manager for Customer Operations at Oncor, wrote that its engineers and planners

had extensive meetings and concluded they could not upgrade the line with the existing trees. “I feel it would be unfair to the neighbors to schedule a meeting implying this remains an option, as this could lead to further frustration. I believe focusing on the mitigation plan such as new plantings, wall upgrades or other options that would address the noise and environmental concerns expressed by members of the community would be most beneficial.”

Richard, who has a file about the Tollway’s trees going back to the 1980s, hired Steve Houser, a consulting arborist of Arborilogical Services, to survey the trees and shrubs. In addition, he continued conversations with Oncor, Gates and the NTTA. Meanwhile, Bonnie says she prayed daily and contacted the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the Texas Trees Foundation, church and synagogue leaders, and neighbors.

The result? Gates worked with the Dallas City Attorney’s office, the Dallas City Secretary’s office, the NTTA and Oncor. She led a meeting with the stakeholders, who agreed to pause before removing all the trees.

The current plan is to cut trees and shrubs that exist within 35 feet of the Tollway.

Gates says Richard has been instrumental at advocating for the neighborhood. “Mr. Brown has been so easy to work with and so helpful,” she says. “He’s so rational.”

Richard says, “We’ve been doing as much as we can just to make the public aware that these trees are out there and the benefits that they provide.”

Story by LISA KRESL Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

“I don’t think lying down in front of bulldozers or chaining ourselves to trees will help.”

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LUXURIOUS TACOS — THE LOOK, THE FEEL, THE FLAVOR

Chicken tikka, shrimp ’n’ grits, Nashville hot chicken, fish and chips, chicken and waffles, Monte Cristo. These are just a few of the dishes that inspire chef Grant Morgan at Velvet Taco. The late-night spot proves any dish can be turned into a taco. Except maybe soup. But it wouldn’t be surprising if he made that work, too. He put grits in a taco for goodness sake.

Every week he creates a weekly taco feature, a “WTF.” It allows him to stay on top of food trends and try them out taco-style.

“I’ve seen caviar as a garnish in a lot of fine dining restaurants lately, so last week we had a Baja taco with caviar,” Morgan says.

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Morgan’s favorite WTF? A char siu pork taco with crispy, puffed rice. But a close second is the fried alligator taco on a hibiscus tortilla. He says the most underrated taco on the menu is the shrimp and grits. His favorite taco, surprisingly, isn’t the fan-favorite chicken tikka.

“The No. 12, the brisket, is my favorite,” Morgan says. “It’s the cheese-crusted flour tortilla with the slow-roasted brisket. It has chili-mayo and avocado relish. It’s good.”

For Velvet Taco, becoming a part of the community is important. Owners use existing spaces so each location fits in with the neighborhood. The Preston Forest location

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is the most suburban of all the locations and has a big, covered patio. The restaurant’s food and beer selections are locally sourced. Owners won’t expand to just any old neighborhood either, so if there’s a location near you, it’s a compliment.

Owners are in no hurry to grow up. They pick each location carefully to make sure it’s a good fit. They want to be sure they get each new store off on the right foot before starting the next one.

“Even though we are starting to get bigger, we want to feel small and do small stuff, which is the big stuff.”

Back-Door Chicken

While taco is king, it may surprise people to know Velvet Taco has a great deal. For $20 you can take home a whole rotisserie chicken, a side of elote, a stack of tortillas, pico and heat sauce. On Mondays, you can get back-door chicken for $10, but come early because they sell out by 7 p.m.

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THE JOHNSON JEWEL ON STRAIT LANE

Behold, the Beck House, the subject of a new book

STORY BY LISA KRESL | PHOTOGRAPHY BY JASON ANDERSON

One of the most architecturally significant homes on Strait Lane is included in a new biography about its architect, Philip Johnson, by Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster.

“The Beck House is the one that’s modern, whereas most of the ones around there are fake French chateaux or fake colonial mansions,” Lamster says about the homes on Strait Lane, which he calls “the Fifth Avenue of Preston Hollow.” “It is the effigy of opulence. It’s so Dallas, and it’s perfect. It’s beautifully made, and it’s a wonderful space to be in.”

The home at 10210 Strait Lane comprises 14,387 square feet, six bedrooms, seven full baths and four partial baths. A grand double staircase inside resembles one in a museum. The house and the 6.45-acre lot is now owned by Naomi Aberly and Larry Lebowitz and is on the market for $23 million, according to Sotheby’s International Reality. The building, which was the site of two fundraisers for former President Barack Obama, was recently restored by architects Bodron+Fruit and the landscape by the Massachusetts firm of Reed Hilderbrand.

Johnson built the house in 1964 for Henry and Patty Beck, according to Lamster, the author of “The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century,” which Smithsonian magazine called one of the best history books of 2018. Since the couple owned the Beck Construction Co., the house was a showpiece for what the company could do. When the Becks were disappointed with their original architect, they called in Johnson. He wrapped the house in a two-story, bright-white concrete arcade.

“The concrete looks like marble

because it’s so pristine,” Lamster says. “It was actually manufactured by aeronautical fabricators because it had to be so perfect. All those concrete edges are completely sharp.”

Johnson, who died at 98 in 2015, was the first recipient of the Pritzker Prize and MoMA’s founding architectural curator. Lamster, a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture, says Johnson virtually invented the term “starchitect,” the celebrity architect.

“Johnson was a historicist who championed the new, an

elitist who was a populist, a genius who lacked originality, a gossip who was an intellectual, a nihilist who was a utopian, a man of endless generosity who could be casually, crushingly cruel,” Lamster wrote in an October newspaper article.

The Beck House’s architecture style wasn’t critically fashionable when it was created. “It didn’t really have a name at the time,” Lamster says. “Now people are calling it ‘the new formalism.’ It’s a reaction against modernism, that sort of dogmatic modernism of glass and steel that Johnson had been a practitioner of. Not only is it objectionable aesthetically, but it seems like this moral failing of him personally, that he would go back on his modernist ideals. You can read it in that house.”

Wrote The New York Times in 2010, “There’s something almost campy about the Beck House’s grand proportions and the relentlessness of its arches, but the arches are impressive from without and frame romantic views of the house’s six-and-a-half-acre site from within.”

“It is the effigy of opulence. It’s so Dallas, and it’s perfect. It’s beautifully made, and it’s a wonderful space to be in.”

HOW PHILIP JOHNSON FOUND HIS WAY TO PRESTON HOLLOW:

• Johnson met Houston’s John and Dominique de Menil, French émigrés. A French baron, John married Dominique, whose family owned the Schlumberger oil services empire. Both were involved with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where they met Philip Johnson, who was a curator and on the board there. He designed a house in Houston, the University of St. Thomas and other projects for the Menils. “They were the conduits for him to get a toehold in Texas,” Mark Lamster, architecture critic of The Dallas Morning News, says.

• Through the Menils, Johnson landed a series of commissions in Texas with the Carter family. He built the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth and the Fort Worth Water Gardens.

• Later, Johnson connected with Gerald Hines, the Houston developer. Hines became the chief client for his skyscrapers and built several of his best.

• In Dallas, in addition to the Beck House, Johnson designed the John F. Kennedy Memorial, Momentum Place (now the Comerica Tower, Dallas’ tallest skyscraper), Cathedral of Hope/Interfaith Peace Chapel, ThanksGiving Square Complex and The Crescent.

• “Beck said, ‘I get paid very well to be a whore, and I have no principles.’‘’ Lamster said. “The Crescent is a good example of his whorishness.”

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FROM THE STAUBACH FAMILY TO PAGEANT-WINNING KOI, SOOTHING SUCCULENTS, THE CRESPI AND CRYOTHERAPY, HERE’S AN UPDATE ON SOME OF THE MOST INTRIGUING NEIGHBORHOOD STORIES AND PHOTOS OF THE YEAR.

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THE CAT THAT SURVIVED A FIRE

THEN: Norm the cat was adopted by Meredith Powell as a baby. Norm also lived with dog Stella, a Catahoula hound. An electric wire started a fire in the attic. Powell and Stella were snuggling in the den. Powell’s fiancé, Mark, was cooking in the kitchen. Suddenly, Mark heard a pop and saw smoke. He ran into the den and yelled, “There’s a fire! Get Stella and get out the front door.” Norm was in the master bedroom, and the door was closed.

NOW: The family relocated to Houston “Norm is doing great in Houston. He is happy in his new home, and he loves to snuggle,” Powell says. “He also loves to chase after his favorite treats.”

SUPER TRENDY SUCCULENTS

THEN: Courtney Goldberg’s succulent arrangements, accented with patterned sand, gemstones and natural elements, have been spotted at charity luncheons at Neiman’s, Ascension, a Kent Rathbun event, medical spas and downtown o ce buildings. Urban Spikes, a name inspired by the porcupine quills she sometimes uses, has a word-ofmouth following after just two years. During our photo shoot, she was pregnant with her third son.

NOW: Business is booming, and Goldberg is looking to relocate the business from her house into a workshop. “We have launched two new exciting o erings for our clients. Jackson Hayes Goldberg, or ‘Jax’ as we call him, arrived on July 9, a day after my birthday. He is a frequent visitor in the workshop and the new boss. He loves watching the team work as he’s mesmerized by the colors and textures. His big brothers have welcomed him with loving arms.”

ROGER STAUBACH’S DAUGHTER IS AS AWESOME AS HER DAD

THEN: Roger Staubach, a legendary quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, became a household name for the “Hail Mary.” Now executive chairman of JLL Americas, he told us about the pleasures of being a grandfather. “I enjoy going to their sporting events. You don’t want your kids to have a piece of cake and a cookie all the time. But when the grandkids come over, all they have to do is ask. You spoil them more than you do your children.”

NOW: Staubach won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November. Daughter Jennifer Staubach Gates, Dallas City Council member for District 13 and an Ursuline graduate, has been busy representing neighbors, showing up for a tense community meeting at the Walnut Hill Recreation Center for a proposed dog park and facilitating a discussion with Oncor to reduce the number of trees cut along the Northeast side of the Tollway. “Dad is a man of moral courage, a man devoted to his faith, family and country,” she told the Dallas Morning News when her father won the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “He is a successful businessman who always taught us to put others, especially the underserved, before ourselves. And, of course, he also enjoyed some success playing football for our local NFL team.” Later, she added, “When people talk about my dad, it wouldn’t be the same without my mom.”

CRYO-CRAZY: CAN YOU FREEZE YOURSELF BETTER?

THEN: The discomfort of cryotherapy is two-fold: You’re half-naked talking to a stranger, and your body is immersed in temperatures between -147 to -202 degrees. The wellness fad is bone chilling and bizarre. Yet cryotherapy has received rave reviews from the likes of actor Daniel Craig and soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo and is reported to resolve a host of ailments. (Now is a good time to mention the Food and Drug Administration does not condone cryotherapy as a medical treatment.)

NOW: Only wearing underwear, gloves, socks and slippers, clients stand in a contraption for three full minutes as liquid nitrogen cascades around. Shivering, goosebumps and funny facial expressions are common side e ects, but there is something oddly refreshing about the experience. One thing, for certain, is that it’s an adrenaline rush. Did we mention it’s cold?

OH, HOW WE LOVE THE CRESPI

THEN: The Crespi estate, on Walnut Hill near the Tollway, has a 28,000-square-foot limestone mansion designed in 1938 by world-renowned architect Maurice Fatio. The home was commissioned by Italian Count Pio Crespi, who had been sent to Texas to oversee his family’s cotton empire. Andy Beal purchased the 25-acre property for $100 million in 2016. Developer Mehrdad Moayedi bought the $36.2-million estate in a December 2017 auction. He planned to divide the land into a new sevenhome neighborhood called The Crespi Estates, according to Brad Oellermann, who oversees the project’s construction.

NOW: Oellermann says the first three houses in the new division are almost finished.

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THEN: The 40-pound, $100,000 fish swim in the 10-foot pond behind an unassuming Preston Hollow house. The specimens have won pageants from England to Oklahoma and Houston. Dear-departed Nigel has been featured in “Koi2Kichi,” a book by Peter Weddington. He’s a rock-star among koi. Preston Hollow’s Dan Charnes is koi-kitsch. Translation: koi crazy. For 18 years, Charnes has been raising them like any good Texas beauty pageant mom. He has an eye for the beauties, buys low and nurtures natural genes, flying in expert help, watching their diets, providing plenty of filtered, heated water and overwhelming them with loving attention.

NOW: Charnes reports that some fish have since grown 5 inches, “a fantastic growth rate for the girls.” Since our last conversation, summer went well. “A worldfamous koi breeder sent us five new koi in September as a gift. In the spring, we are planning on helping out a breeder during mating season.”

Exorcising grief

‘HEY GOD, TAKE THAT!’

Story by LISA KRESL | Photo by DANNY FULGENCIO

BRANDI WEST, 43, starts the day with an act of heroism: She makes herself get up out of her marriage bed. She dons a Studio 6 Fitness

T-shirt, packs her Pilates grip socks and heads to the gym. On the way, the radio plays a song by “Drive-By Truckers,” and despondency from the April death of her 49-yearold husband, Rip, overcomes her.

He died in the middle of the night from a heart attack. She remembers sitting in the hospital waiting room alone as nurses called the code blue. “After he died, everyone would say, ‘I’m so proud of you.’ And I would say, ‘Why? Because I’m getting out of bed?’”

But on most days, she knows Pilates instructor

and friend Madeleine Fontes is waiting for her. Fontes gets it. Her son died suddenly seven years ago at age 18. Fontes, once a client, now teaches between four to seven classes a week.

Neighbors struggling with grief find solace in many Preston Hollow places, especially during the holidays, when emotions can be overwhelming.

But for some, it’s Pilates and personal trainers that get them through, one day at a time.

“Exercise plays an important role in the grieving process,” says Dr. Akanksha Kumar of the Methodist Family Health Center in Preston Hollow.

“Exercise releases endorphins, which can counter the stress hormone and lift one’s mood.”

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Fontes used to swim, but she didn’t want to see her old friends from the pool after her son’s death. “I didn’t want the pity face,” she says. Instead, she started a new routine.

“I needed to not be locked away in my house,” Fontes says. “A grief program didn’t help; alcohol didn’t help. I just became catatonic, inert. I sat at a grief conference and thought, ‘Look at us. We’re 600 people. There’s nothing you can do to stop our grief. There’s nothing that anyone can say to make us feel better.’”

West says when the workout starts, she doesn’t have time to feel sorry for herself. “When I leave here, I feel good. It’s not ‘poor, pitiful me. I’m never going to find another Rip. I’m never going to find a person who loved me so much.’ When you get here, you don’t have time for those negative thoughts to take hold.”

For West, the physical pain from exercise is her way of saying, “Hey, God, take that! You caused me anguish, but I am in control of this pain.”

Stephanie Stephenson, studio director at Utopia Food + Fitness on Preston Road, remembers a 32-yearold client whose husband died in a work accident. The couple had been married a little more than three years. The widow would buy groceries but not prepare a meal. She was drinking too much alcohol and not eating.

After a year of “floundering,” she found Utopia, which figures out how many calories a client needs, provides a pre-made meal plan and a 20-minute workout routine. “When I talk to people who are grief stricken, they either can’t think about eating, or they are self-medicating with food and wine,” Stephenson says. “Either way, you’re negatively affecting your body, and you feel worse. We’re coaches for them.”

MOURNING IN THE MORNING

Michelle Anderson’s son Blake died of a heart attack in 2015 while mountain biking with friends at former President George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford. He was 30, a graduate of Jesuit, and worked as an assistant to Dallas City Councilman Adam McGough. When someone asked her how she got out of bed every day, she said, “I do what I did before he died and after he died. I get up at 6 a.m. and go to Pilates every day.”

For a year after Blake’s death, her son Richie joined her in the exercise class Mondays through Fridays. “I look at the walls that say ‘strength,’ ‘spirit’ and ‘balance,’ and I think about Blake.” She also met a couple in the class. The husband’s daughter died when she was 13. “Talking to him was very healing too.”

Anderson now has five grandchildren, one of whom is named Blake. She also volunteers, including with the annual Blake Anderson Public Service Awards named in her son’s honor. “Life does go on,” she says.

GRIEF RELIEF: ONE NEIGHBOR’S EXPERT TIPS

Dr. Akanksha Kumar of Methodist Family Health Center, Preston Hollow, offers this advice:

What does research show about the link between grief and fitness?

Consistent exercise can improve mood symptoms just within a few weeks. However, it’s important to respect one’s body and mind. Delving into a new exercise routine after a loss is usually not recommended. However, after the “rawness” of the event starts to subside, exercise can be helpful. Some research shows that it is as effective as being on antidepressants.

What is the best type of exercise to do when you’re grieving?

Research shows that some form of cardio can be cathartic. However, listen to your body. Over-exerting can be problematic in the denial or anger stage of grief. If you are new to fitness, try starting with 10-15 minute cardio intervals. If you are someone who consistently exercises, continue your usual routine. The key is keeping things simple and consistent so it can become an outlet rather than a chore. Some integrate yoga and meditation to help calm the mind.

How long does the grieving process last?

It can last anywhere from a few weeks to six months, maybe longer. If it has been more than six months, let your doctor know.

Are there resources specific to our neighborhood that you suggest?

Preston Hollow has lots of fitness centers, especially group exercise classes like SoulCycle, Pure Barre and Orangetheory. Talk to your physician if you feel lost. It is unlikely that you are alone.

“When I leave here, I feel good. It’s not ‘poor, pitiful me.’”

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