2012 November Preston Hollow

UP IN THE AIR

The glory days of air travel and the people who lived it

Lucky us

Whether we deserve it or not

The thing about Thanksgiving is that most of us have so much to be thankful for, that we aren’t thankful.

I know that sounds impossible, ungrateful even, but it’s not unusual. Think about it: The better off we are, the more likely we are to take what we have for granted rather than consider it a gift or a blessing.

We have it. We deserve it. What else is there to say?

Maybe that’s why holidays such as Thanksgiving and birthdays and Christmas and Valentine’s Day come around once a year — they’re here to poke us in the ribs about how lucky we are to have what we have, whatever that may be.

That “memory jogging” isn’t just triggered by holidays. Sometimes, life causes its own reset, often at the most unexpected time and in the most unexpected way.

Nine years ago, shortly after a peaceful holiday season, I visited a doctor for a checkup. Nothing was wrong, nor was anything expected to be wrong.

A blood test showed elevated levels of a marker that generally means one thing: cancer. Since I had successfully been treated for testicular cancer 15 years earlier, that was a mental connect-the-dot moment for me and the doctor — maybe my cancer was back?

More tests ensued, along with more visits to specialists. Even as I made the trek from one medical professional to another and from one machine to the next, my mind wandered. Why hadn’t I signed up for life insurance when I had the chance? Why couldn’t the doctors figure out the problem? And the ever-present, why is this

happening to me?

It took a few weeks of handwringing before a verdict was in: The doctor who seemed to know the most said I probably had brain cancer, and I needed to start chemo right away to keep it from spreading.

I shuddered. Literally. The body blow came from nowhere.

My mind disengaged, and I thought sorrowfully about the chemicals that would soon be seeping into my body, trampling healthy cells while looking for cancer. I felt sorry for myself, not because I deserved better but because I didn’t think I deserved this.

Luckily, my wife remained level-headed, even as I didn’t. She questioned the doctors more thoroughly than I could, and she figured out the guy was guessing — there was no proof of cancer, just a strong suspicion based on a single blood test that kept coming back irregularly.

So at her insistence, I didn’t start chemo or any other treatment. Instead, we found a renowned testicular cancer doctor in Indiana (the guy cured Lance Armstrong) who suggested that maybe all I had was an irregular blood test that didn’t mean anything at all.

It turns out he was right. After nine months of mental terror, with monthly blood tests to chart progress, right before Thanksgiving I found out that there was not and never had been — anything physically wrong with me.

It was all just a huge, horrifying misunderstanding.

So when I need a reminder about how good I have it these days, and after all this I inexplicably need that reminder almost daily, I don’t have to wait for a holiday to remind me.

I just focus on that bullet I dodged, a bullet that was never even fired, and my heart automatically skips a beat again. And again. And again.

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WALTON’S LAWN & GARDEN CENTER

Shop Walton’s Garden Center to create a festive home and garden for the holidays. Great decorations and gifts for the indoors and out! Visit us for Partners Card. 8652 Garland Rd. 214.321.2387 waltonsgarden.com

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Wackym’s Kitchen bakes delicious cookies and treats from original recipes using fresh, natural ingredients like real butter and cane sugar. Visit our website to order or find a retail location. wackymskitchen.com

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Two Girls Toffee is perfect for holiday celebrations, birthdays, and anniversaries. These delicious toffees come in 4 oz., 8 oz. and 16 oz. boxes of fabulous toffee bliss. 7989 Belt Line Rd., Ste.154 972.991.3689 pollydupont.com

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Come taste our fall sweets at the London Café inside Timothy Oulton at Potter Square. 4500 N. Central Expressway. 214.534.2241 thehospitalitysweet.com

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COMMENTS AND LETTERS Outside the principal’s office at Hillcrest

As a teenager, my encounters with the principal were limited to his telling me I’d be suspended if I didn’t take my nose ring out.

So when I was invited to be Principal for a Day at Hillcrest High School, I thought I’d be sitting behind a grand oak desk and making phone calls to parents who needed to come pick up their misbehaving children. I was wrong on all counts.

Principal Ronald Jones walks the halls of the building and cracks jokes with the students, cheers them up when they look downtrodden and says the occasional, “Boy, what did I tell you about pulling up those pants?” The thing is, though, he knows their names — both the good and the “bad” ones, who don’t really seem that bad.

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The day started with Jones presenting a PowerPoint on Spot Observation Rubrics, which administrators perform after stepping into teachers’ classrooms. Jones gives teachers grades based on performance and their ability to show how their students can demonstrate what they’ve learned.

The purpose of all this is to stay in line with Superintendent Mike Miles’s Destination 2020 plan. The plan calls for eight different key efforts, from improving the quality of instruction to revamping the Department of School Leadership and its function.

If they succeed, by 2020, 90 percent of all DISD students will graduate on time and 80 percent of students will enter college, the military or be “career ready” straight from high school.

Read more about editor Monica Nagy’s experience at Hillcrest High School at PRESTONHOLLOW.ADVOCATEMAG.COM.

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Q&A: Meridan Zerner

Whether you’re a foodie or simply enjoy a good meal, the holidays flood the senses with delicacies that can be nearly impossible to resist. We enlisted Preston Hollow resident Meridan Zerner, the Cooper Institute’s co-director of nutrition, to tell us when we should or shouldn’t keep our salivating lips sealed.

During the holidays, is there really a way to enjoy all the house parties, family dinners, school potlucks and the like without sacrificing your sanity? Define “sanity” [laughs]. Seriously, though, of course we can manage holiday parties, but it takes a mindful plan — a strategy! For each of us, there’s a certain amount of calorie accountability — an amount that allows us to maintain or lose weight in a healthy way. Find out that number. Then, we budget for those parties and, along with exercise, nutrition’s trusty sidekick, we can stay on track to maintain our health. Maybe try the new plate model at myplate.gov. Recreate that plate with half being full of vegetables, and you have a reasonable 500-calorie meal.

Can Türkyilmaz

What if the sight of a brown sugarglazed ham is too hard to resist and someone finds himself of herself putting on a couple pounds, where do you go from there?

We all gain and lose a few pounds throughout the year. Our bodies are designed to fluctuate a little, but when those few pounds become three, four or five, then it’s time to rein it in! The temptation is to be extreme or radical in “reining it in,” and that never works. Diets that eliminate food groups, are extremely low in calories or don’t allow for real world circumstances have a very high failure rate. We recommend that people start again with a good night of sleep (there is a great science to the sleep/weight management connection), eat a protein-plus-carbohydrate breakfast and plan out their 150-200 calorie snacks so they can eat frequently through the day. Add exercise, even minimally to start, and you have a recipe for success.

Is there an upsurge of people participating in fad dieting after the holidays, and is there truth to the benefits of any of them such as the Paleolithic diet?

The post-holiday season is notorious for new and wacky diets finding their way onto store shelves. Some are better than others, and some are downright irresponsible. We don’t want to compromise other aspects of your health on the way to weight loss, especially when you can do both — lose weight and improve health. U.S. News and World Report reviews diets each year. The 2012 report featured 22 experts who reviewed and ranked some of the more well-known plans on the market. The Paleo diet did not rank very well. In spite of good concepts like “consume less sugar” and “eat more fruits and vegetables,” this diet eliminated dairy and grains (even whole grains).

Holiday Reminders

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What is the best way to get through the holidays and still look good come spring?

Plan for dietary indiscretions by cutting back on calories elsewhere. Include at least five fruits/vegetables each day to help with fullness, fiber and overall health — even in the face of that triple layer chocolate mousse Yule log cake. Don’t starve yourself before a party — it will likely backfire. So have small, healthy snacks leading up to the big event. Don’t leave the cookies and treats on the counter because those nibbles add up, too! Commit to at least the minimum amount of exercise (five days a week, 30 minutes a day). This helps to maintain your muscle mass, improve your mood and burn off a few of those sneaky seasonal calories. —Monica

S. Nagy

FIVE MORE TIPS FROMMERIDAN ZERNER

1 Eat every three hours — a small meal or snack — and try to combine carbohydrate foods with a protein when possible.

2 It is possible to overeat even the healthiest foods, so measure the oil, the nuts and the avocado!

3 Spare 100 calories per day to lose 10 pounds in a year. Some of those small choices like “dressing on the side” matter!

4 Alternate cocktails with a glass of water.

5 Get at least the recommended seven to eight hours of sleep to help with better health management.

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PAWS & CLAWS

Scout loves to live the high life in his high-rise condo as a member of its pooch walking club. He also enjoys his trot down to Lucky Dog Barkery and Taco Diner. This handsome little man will be 12 years old Dec. 4, says his person, Nancy Nurse of Preston Hollow.

The other woman

Six years ago Preston Hollow resident Nanci Masso received the news that her husband, who was out of the country for business, died after suffering a massive heart attack following a jog. He had no previous health problems. Dec. 13 marks the seventh year after her husband’s death, which left the mother of five and grandmother of six a widow after 28 years of marriage. Masso, now 56, looks like a woman to be envied with her thin frame and sparkling eyes — eyes that still water a bit when she speaks of the highs and lows that followed his death. “I went into phases where I’d shut down and put my head in the sand,” she says. “Then I’d fall into the all-work pattern,” she says of focusing her attention on the real estate company she and her husband operated. There are about 13.7 million widows in the United States alone, and Masso didn’t want to be another woman halted by grief, so she joined Widow’s Journey. Joy Kirsch, a wealth planning and financial coaching adviser, started the nonprofit in 2011 to give back to the community and touch the lives of women she may not encounter in her office every day. The group of about 20 women of all ages meets at Park City Club the second Tuesday of each month. Masso says she tried grief counseling, but until Widow’s Journey was not able to find a place that coupled the emotional, financial and friendship help that the nonprofit provides. “There are all sorts of stages you go through, and you can’t hurry the process,” she says. “We can help women deal with the different stages.” She’s now a member of the board of directors, and offers her perspective and experience to other women so that they may one day do the same. “I think it’s healthy for widows to talk about it in the same venue with others who have been through the same thing,” she says. Masso says the women in the group are trying to coin a new word for “widow,” as it has a negative connotation. They are playing with the term “the other woman.” As she says, “You are another woman after this happens.” —Monica

S. Nagy

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Out & About

November 2012

Nov. 2, 9, 16, 30

Uncle Calvin’s anniversary shows

To celebrate 30 years of acoustic music, Uncle Calvin’s Coffeehouse hosts four nights of performances by its favorite local and touring musicians. Visit its website to buy either individual tickets or a package deal that includes all four shows plus a CD and a T-shirt. Northpark Presbyterian Church, 9555 N. Central, 214.363.0044, unclecalvins.org, $10-$30

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THROUGH NOV. 30

Bill Komodore paintings

The exhibit features works of Bill Komodore, the late SMU professor and artist. “A Man of Spirit” highlights his biblically related large canvas oil paintings.

Museum of Biblical Art, 7500 Park Lane, 214.368.4622, biblicalarts.org, free

NOV. 2

Holiday happy hour

Sip a glass of wine or beer, munch on appetizers and browse holiday gifts, fall accessories and spring bulbs. Staff will be on hand to answer winter garden questions.

North Haven Gardens, 7700 Northaven, 214.363.5316, nhg.com, free

NOV. 10

Parents night out

Parents can take a night off and drop off their kids for indoor swimming and other fun activities at Splish Splash Night from 6:30-10 p.m.

Jewish Community Center of Dallas, 7900 Northaven, 214.739.2737, jccdallas.org, $28, $22 for members

NOV. 11

Orpheus Chamber Singers

A full orchestra will accompany the singers in their 7 p.m. concert. The group will sing Bach’s “Magnificat” and Handel’s “Coronation Anthems.”

Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church, 9800 Preston, 214.546.1252, orpheuschambersingers.org, $5-$40

Nov. 17

Gift and farmers market

Local handmade gifts, food and more will be on the fireplaceheated restaurant patio from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Celebration Restaurant, 4503 W. Lovers, 214.352.0031, celebrationrestaurant.com, free

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Nov. 12

Parenting expert

Dr. Wendy Mogel, author of New York Times bestseller “The Blessing of a Skinned Knee,” will offer parents tools in raising self-reliant children at 7 p.m. Following the presentation, Mogel will sell and sign books. Call to reserve your spot, or bring cash or check to the door. The Lamplighter School, 11611 Inwood, 214.369.9201, thelamplighterschool.org, $15

Nov. 16

Health screening

Parsons House retirement community is hosting Life Line Screening from 9 a.m.noon to check for stroke, osteoporosis, cholesterol, prostate diseases and more. Call 800.679.5192 to register.

Parsons House Preston Hollow, 4205 W. Northwest Hwy., 214.357.7900, parsonshouseprestonhollow.com, $149 stroke tests package, $50 individual tests

Nov. 17-Jan. 6

Trains at NorthPark

For the 25th year, the Ronald McDonald House of Dallas holds its fundraiser exhibit of miniature trains traveling about 1,600 feet of track through miniature U.S. landmarks. Raffle tickets and railcars can also be purchased at the show, located on the second level between Barneys New York and Nordstrom.

NorthPark Center, 8687 N. Central, 214.631.7354, rmhdallas.org, $3-$6

Autumn at the arboretum • Now - November 21st

Don’t miss the nationally acclaimed Pumpkin Village and some of Dallas’ best fall foliage!

Chihuly exhibit • FiNal weeks!

See dramatic sculptures by renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly. (Check website for details and to pre-purchase tickets for Chihuly Nights)

Holiday at the arboretum • November 23 - JaNuary 2, 2013

The Artistry of the Nativity returns with the popular collections of George Dvorsky and Dr. and Mrs. Ray Harrington.

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Delicious

Pumpkin tastes and treats

Adecade ago, owner Owedia Alvarado and her husband took over Stein’s Bakery after working there since 1989. The recipes she uses are the same as the founders used in 1863. “We stay pretty traditional to what historically worked,” Alvarado says. Though the bakery is famous for its cheese pockets, petit fours, and cinnamon and cream cheese coffee cakes, around this time of the year they bake their pumpkin bread. The spiced bread looks like a pound cake and comes topped with a cream cheese frosting, if that’s your thing. It’s available through the end of Thanksgiving. “I love what I do,” Alvarado says. “I try to make people happy.”

—Monica S. Nagy

STEIN’S BAKERY

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PRICE RANGE: 30-CENT COOKIES TO $100 CAKES

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THREE MORE PLACES FOR PUMPKIN

1 Teh Guk Dang

TheManju Cookies are filled with sweet pumpkin paste and resemble cupcake tops sans the icing. Owners also carry a type of pumpkin bread different from what most might be used to – it’s their regular thin bread filled with pumpkin paste.Both items are available throughout the year.

2546 Royal Lane 972.243.4478

2 Society Bakery

Indulge in the marshmallow pumpkin panna cotta, a dish described as pumpkin mousse meets marshmallow panna cotta meets graham cracker crumbs. You can also try pumpkin and pumpkin-chocolate-chip whoopie pies, or pre-order traditional pumpkin cakes and cupcakes.

7777Forest Lane, Suite A066 972.566.7558

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3 Gooey’s Treats

Try out their pumpkin yogurt, or vanilla and pumpkin yogurt swirl, called “pumpkin cream pie.” With a mere nine calories per ounce, this low-cal goodness lasts only through November.

11700 Preston Road, Suite 670 214.691.9319

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Have a cup of cheer

Anne Amie Cuvée A Amrita ($15) Oregon

A lot of wine writers don’t like writing about holiday wine. They think it’s beneath them, too pedestrian for a writer who should be above all of that. That is just plain wrong-headed; the holidays are the best wine time of the year, when even people who don’t drink wine figure it’s OK to have a glass or two. And, perhaps, if they enjoy that glass or two, they’ll drink wine more often.

Here are a few ideas for wine for this holiday season: Ridge Three Valleys ($20) is a spicy, almost sophisticated zinfandel from one of the best producers in California and is a great turkey wine. Rene Barbier Mediterranean Red ($5) is a simple but well-made Spanish wine that delivers more than $5 worth of value.

Anne Amie Cuvée A Amrita ($15) is an Oregon blend with 10 grapes that delivers the quality I expect from Anne Amie, fresh and lively with a hint of sweetness, and is another turkey possibility. Domaine Guillaman ($10) is from the Gascon region of France, and resembles sauvignon blanc more than most of the other $10 Gascon wines that I enjoy, but it is still well worth drinking.

I’ll have more on this next month, but if you want some bubbly for Thanksgiving, almost any Spanish cava will do. They’re inexpensive — between $7 and $15 — and are food-friendly and very easy to drink. Cristalino and Segura Viudas are longtime favorites, but this is a category where you can buy something you don’t know and will be fine.

JEFF SIEGEL’S WEEKLY WINE REVIEWS appear every Wednesday on prestonhollow.advocatemag.com

Ask the wine guy

—Jeff Siegel

Q. Are there wine pairing rules for Thanksgiving?

A. Dozens, but you can safely ignore them. Serve what you like, keeping in mind what your guests like. The idea is to have fun, and not to intimidate anyone.

ASK THE WINE GUY taste@advocatemag.com

—Jeff Siegel

with your wine

Thanksgiving leftovers

Welcome to our third annual Thanksgiving leftover potpourri, because the world does not need yet another recipe for the holidays. Instead, let’s clean out that refrigerator.

You can even make your own crust using any basic bread recipe. Just turn the oven up as high as it will go, top the raw dough with leftover turkey, whatever cheese is in the house, and any vegetables in the fridge, and bake until the crust is brown. Sauce is optional, but green salsa would do very well.

Add 1/2 cup or more of mashed sweet potatoes to your favorite biscuit recipe, and reduce the liquid in the recipe by the amount of sweet potatoes. Form and bake as usual.

This is one of those “Why didn’t I think of that before?” moments. All you need is leftover turkey, cheese, pickled jalapenos and flour tortillas. And maybe some green salsa.

Soak the rice noodles (the wider style works better) according to package directions. Sauté onion, garlic, ginger and bell pepper in a wok or large skillet, and then add a couple of tablespoons of hoisin sauce, a teaspoon or two of lime juice, and soy sauce. Stir again, correct for seasoning, and then add cubed leftover turkey and noodles and mix carefully until heated through.

in the air something special

In 1952, Helen Adair’s future took flight. Clad in a light blue skirt-suit and hat, her poised and prepped body stepped onto a DC-3 Braniff plane with 21 passengers, and she began her journey as a hostess in the sky.

Braniff “hostesses” took their first flight June 1, 1937, and today, a group of Preston Hollow women still buzz about their years of travel through Clipped Bs, an organization formed by former Braniff flight attendants who reflect on the “good years.”

Flying in the 1950s and ’60s was all luxury, style and class. Pilots greeted pristinely dressed passengers as they boarded. Beautiful hostesses donned fashion-forward mini dresses and high-heeled boots, served up cocktails and chefprepared lunches, and when one of them delivered the seat belt instructions, people actually listened.

Remembering a unique era in air travel, when it was all glitz, glamour and questionable practices

Story by monica S. Nagy | Photos by Danny Fulgencio and Can Turkyilmaz

Maguire got her wings in 1958 because was the most exciting job available at the time. She was sitting with her parents on their way to California when a flight attendant told Maguire she would be perfect for the job. Maguire says she was in college studying to be a teacher and didn’t want to seem excited about the idea in front of her parents, but the woman was just so “cute, cute, cute,” and she wondered what it would be like to be in her perfectly polished shoes.

Most women worked as secretaries, teachers or nurses, and Maguire says she didn’t want that life. She flew for more than a year before she married her college sweetheart, a man she has been married to for 53 years.

In Braniff’s prime, women had to retire when they married or by age 32 when, Maguire says, most women weighed about 130 pounds max.

Braniff’s bubble helmet from 1965

“It was very glamorous at that time, hose and heels and gloves. It wasn’t the casual,” she says of their attire. Before the hostesses, who stood between 5’ 2” and 5’ 7”, could begin their shifts, inspectors looked at the women’s shoes, made sure their hair didn’t touch their collars, and they were weighed, says former hostess Yvonne Crum.

On July 15, 1964, Crum started working for Braniff and later switched to American Airlines. She retired 46 years later on the same day in July after having what she calls “a little detour with breast cancer.”

Crum says she was very fortunate to work in the “glory days” when respect went both ways on an aircraft. The passengers were generally polite, and the hostesses took pride in a job that opened the world to them.

Visit the Frontiers of Flight Museum at 6911 Lemmon.

Hours are Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. 1 p.m.-5 p.m.

Seniors $6, adults $8, students $5, under 3 free

For more information call 214.350.3600 or visit flightmuseum.com

Maguire and Adair browse the Braniff exhibit

Adair, far left, and her fellow hostesses in the 1960s

Adair says she never would have traveled to South America if it wasn’t for her job, and smiles with perfectly applied red lipstick when she speaks of the thrill of Mexico City and New York. Maguire also says New York was one of the best places she traveled.

It wasn’t all glamour, though. Maguire and Adair speak of picking uneaten food off passengers’ trays after they left the plane or fell asleep.

“That’s why I eat so fast now,” Adair jokes.

She also jokes about the time Lyndon Johnson flew in coach on one of the flights, and the flight attendant alongside her was afraid to approach him because he had a notorious temper.

“He couldn’t have been nicer,” Adair says of the former president, who marched down the aisle and shook everyone’s hands.

Crum poses with Larry Hagman, aka J.R. Ewing

A 1960s-era marketing campaign meant bright colors for Braniff.

Adair came back to work in reservations and at the ticket counter in the late ’70s after suffering from Braniff withdrawal. Women were allowed to take ground jobs for airlines they were “too old” to work in the sky.

But, “flight attendants are born friendly,” Adair says of the desire to work with the public and the lifelong friendships they form.

Before deregulation “Braniff was the biggest thing going,” but the glory days came to an end in the late ’60s when American landed in Dallas and everything changed, Crum says.

Adair says Braniff expanded too fast to try and keep up, and that, along with bad management and rising fuel costs, was the reason Braniff went under.

Men didn’t start working as “cabin attendants” until 1972, 10 years before Braniff folded. Crum said hostesses lost everything when the airline went under.

“Our pension and savings and everything,” she says.

Staying connected is important for these women, whose hair is still perfectly curled and nails polished to glimmer in the light. Clinging to her memories, Adair volunteers this day as a docent at the Frontiers of Flight Museum.

The Frontiers of Flight Museum showcases Braniff uniforms circa 1960.

Crum started working for Braniff in 1964 and later switched to American.

Outfitting success

Two business owners prove moms really can do it all

Story by Lauri valerio Photo by Can Turkyilmaz

It started two years ago with a living room sale and a Facebook post, and now Preston Hollow residents Nicole Brewer and Amy Laws are running a company that raked in well over a million dollars this year.

The twist? All sales happen on Facebook.

“It’s really the way we sell, not just what we sell,” Brewer says.

Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. sharp, Brewer and Laws post photos of their exclusive, specially designed children’s clothes on the Facebook page of their business, Smocked Auctions. Then it’s first-come first-served for the 130,000-plus Facebook users who “like” Smocked Auctions’ page. To “win” an item, they have to be one of the first to comment on a photo with their desired size and email address.

“It’s easy to shop with us,” Laws says. “[Customers] don’t have to thumb through multiple web pages. They see something they like and they click.”

Impulse buying meets instant gratification in the auctions: You choose to buy within seconds and receive the clothes on your doorstep three days later.

Brewer and Laws, who both hold business degrees, started selling children’s clothes on Facebook at a time when it was still unchartered territory. Though they first sold wholesale goods, they now design their own clothes.

Demand is high. A single one of their Facebook posts can garner as many as 1,500 comments, and the company ships to about 40 states in any given month.

“People started to befriend each other online,” Laws says of the community built through Smocked Auctions. “It’s like online dating for clothes.”

In addition to the twice-weekly auctions, the business also holds sample sales

twice a year and preorder sales once a week. Smocked Auctions had more than 2,000 transactions at a recent sample sale, which has evolved from a couple of hours in a living room to a couple of days in a hotel ballroom with people flying in from out of state. Their Facebook sales are still the most popular, though.

“It’s the community,” Brewer says about the reasons behind the success. “We have a group of moms, they get their kids fed and their husbands fed, and then it’s their time. They trust our product. They know it’s good. They know if they pay for it, they’re going to get it.”

Brewer and Laws ran the company by themselves for almost a year — they now have a staff of five — and didn’t initially market their product, saying customers were, and still are, their best advertisers.

Like most of their customers, the two are mothers of small children and know that functionality is often as important as cuteness when it comes to clothes.

“Our business has evolved rapidly as

we’ve seen what’s practical for our children,” Brewer says.

The company recently developed custom software to help with invoicing, inventory, order fulfillment, bulk shipping and more, but the two still personally log the winners and answer questions posted on the Facebook page.

If being a mom is a full-time job, both Brewer and Laws have two intense positions. They take care of their own kids, and they also work nights and seven days a week on Smocked Auctions, yet they say they love what they’re doing.

“It’s our baby,” Laws says. “No one cares about your baby as much as you do.”

The two remain best friends, as they were when they started.

“I wouldn’t want to do this with anybody else,” Laws says. “It’s fun to work with your best friend. It’s like getting married — we didn’t know when we were ‘dating’ that it was going to be serious,” they say, finishing each other’s sentences.

Nicole Brewer and Amy Laws offer “champagne taste on a sippy cup budget” through Smocked Auctions.

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Tesar opens Preston Center seafood restaurant

Five-star chef John Tesar will open seafood restaurant Spoon Bar & Kitchen in November in Preston Center, in the spot where Tramontana used to be located. The restaurant says it is committed to using responsibly sourced seafood. Other interesting features inside Spoon include a raw bar, a private wine room and a counter where customers can sample experimental foods. In related news, Tesar will compete in Bravo’s upcoming season of “Top Chef,” which premiers Nov. 7. TV competitions aren’t new to him. In 2011 he won $10,000 on the Food Network’s “Extreme Chef.” Tesar moved to Dallas in 2007, and since then has been nominated for the “Best Chef Southwest” James Beard award.

North Dallas businesses go to court over LBJ Express Project

Business owners are going to court demanding Texas stop construction of the LBJ Express Project because they say the Texas Department of Transportation didn’t prepare impact assessments of its takings. Lead plaintiff Lamar Advantage Outdoor Co. owns five billboards on I-35 east that are affected by highway construction, the company says. Plaintiff Ralston Outdoor Advertising owns four nearby billboards. There are six additional plaintiffs involved in the case. In July 2011 attorneys asked TxDOT for a copy of Taking Impact Assessments (TIA) for the project, and said TxDOT officials said they didn’t have them after a month passed. The plaintiffs are arguing that TIAs are required by law before governmental agencies can implement projects. Plaintiffs say in May 2012

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TxDOT said they didn’t need to prepare a TIA. Nevertheless, the plaintiffs want the project declared as invalid and work stopped.

Long-term LBJ changes

The entrance ramp from Hillcrest Road to the eastbound LBJ Freeway will be closed through November until the new entrance ramp is done. The LBJ Express Project will switch traffic to the eastbound frontage road between Hillcrest Road and Park Central Drive. Montfort Drive’s eastbound entrance ramp will be permanently closed, and drivers will have to enter the highway via the Preston Road entrance ramp. Lasting about two years, the westbound exit ramp to Webb Chapel Road will be combined with Marsh Lane, and drivers will have to use that exit ramp to get to Webb Chapel Road.

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1 True Food Kitchen, a 5,915-square-foot restaurant with a reputation for its healthy dishes, will be the first new retail tenant in the 5-story mixed-use building at The Plaza at Preston Center the first quarter of 2013. The meals at the restaurant will be based on Weil’s Anti-inflammatory Diet and Food Pyramid. 2 Ocho Kitchen and Cocktails is now open on Preston. Chef Eric DiStefano brings his experience cooking FrenchAsian food in the Southwest to Ocho’s Tex-Mex menu, which will feature Thai flavors and New Mexican hatch chilies. The restaurant advertises its versatility: While the ground floor will be family-friendly dining, upstairs is a tequila bar and cocktail lounge.

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“I really wish I would have done this earlier.”

Kevin Maloney of C.C. Young Retirement Community says that is the phrase he hears most often from clients he has met through his work. Unfortunately, when it comes to planning for our advanced years, many of us would rather bury our toes – and our heads – in the sand. But no matter how difficult it is to face questions about the future, the time to take action is now, rather than waiting until a crisis may force difficult or unexpected choices.

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Downsizing might make practical sense for empty nesters, but that doesn’t mean it’s an easy decision. People develop at-

tachments to their neighborhoods and their homes. Familiar things like the view from the back porch or even a finicky doorbell can seem like old friends. Sometimes sentimental feelings cause us to overlook the financial impact of staying in a house too long.

“People don’t realize how much it really costs to live at home,” Maloney says. “Most of the folks that move into a community like ours (C.C. Young) have been in their home for quite a few years, and it’s probably paid for. But when you consider taxes, utilities and maintenance, it is still very expensive to live in that ‘free’ home.” When people budget, Maloney says, they usually leave out big expenses like replacing a water heater or a roof. But in a house that is twenty or more years

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old, large expenses are not only likely, they are inevitable.

Judy Burkett of Presbyterian Village North says, “The thing I always tell people is, you need to come (to a retirement community) when you can still enjoy it, and you can experience it for what it’s meant to be.”

And what is it meant to be? A way of living that offers freedom from the responsibilities of home maintenance and repairs, and chores like mowing the grass. Consequently, residents are free to take up (or return to) activities like art and music, or social activities like dancing.

“I’ve seen people come in and fully embrace the retirement community,” Burkett says. “We have several couples that spend part of the year traveling, and they don’t have to worry about locking up the house or anything happening. They are still on the go, and they have peace of mind, knowing everything will be okay at home.”

Finance

U.S.A. Today reports that nearly half of Americans approaching retirement have no plans in place to make sure their money lasts the rest of their life. Here are some age markers to keep in mind:

If you retire at age 55, you can make withdrawals from your 401(k) without the penalty, but you will have to pay income tax. At age 62, you can claim Social Security, but checks may be reduced by as much as 30 percent if you sign up at this age. Full benefits begin for most Americans at age 66. The age eligibility increases gradually, in monthly increments, for baby boomers born in the 1950s. If you were born in 1960, you will have to wait until age 67 for your full benefits. But for everyone who can hold off collecting Social Security until age 70, payouts will grow by as much as 8 percent per year.

Medical

Don’t overlook planning for health care, including the possible need for long term care, advises Penni Jones of Villages of Lake Highlands. “Typically in assisted living people are preparing for the future and looking at what they can afford,” Jones says. “Sometimes they have veteran’s benefits, or long term care insurance.” The different levels of care at Villages of Lake Highlands include assisted living and progress through skilled nursing and a dedicated memory care unit.

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Sometimes families are in crisis over an aging parent’s health when they come to the facility, and they don’t have a lot of time to search for high-quality care. “We do a lot of special things in our memory care unit that some people don’t do,” Jones says. “We try to reduce medications used on Alzheimer residents. We call it “calm therapy.” We have quiet rooms where we administer aromatherapy and involve pressure points that have a calming effect on people with dementia.”

Will and estate planning

Roughly 50 percent of adults don’t have a legal will in place. “The State of Texas does provide you with a will in their statute,” says independent estate planner Mary Glenn. “But most people don’t want the State of Texas to write their will.”

Peace of mind is a gift you give to yourself. And to your children.

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The thought of paying legal fees today in exchange for the experience of planning our eventual mortality has driven many people to online do-it-yourself sites. Unfortunately the complexities required to ensure validity can make that alternative a high risk. “Some people really care about their pets,” Glenn says. “Others want to give to the community or a charity. Without a valid will, that’s not going to happen.”

Whatever your age, it’s important to have a will. “If you are young and you have minor children, you’ve got to have a will so you can designate a guardian for them,” Glenn says. Also, a will is the only way to cover friendships or partnerships that would not be recognized in Texas probate.

An Estate lawyer can help you establish your wishes in case of illness or incapacity. “You may be in the hospital,” she says. “It really is handy to have a medical power of attorney in place so that you have a designated person that is going to be able to make financial decisions, like keep your electricity on and pay your mortgage.” Other examples of documents for the living include advance directives about health care (like a living will) and even a declaration of guardian, should that be necessary.

“If your capacity is gone, you no longer can say, ‘I don’t want Jimmy to do it,’” Glenn says with a knowing laugh. “If you want Sue Ellen to do it, it’s better to have it written down now.”

DID YOU KNOW

Older adults tend to move in three distinct phases.

Retirement – usually between the ages of 60 and 70, seeking lifestyle amenities and hobbies such as boating and golfing. Health Events – when living in one’s current residence becomes difficult, or adults who have moved away geographically from family return to be closer.

Advanced age – common among those with increasing ailments and those who do not have an available caregiver.

(Source: University of Minnesota, Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 2004)

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Dr. Lynne Roberts, an internationally known laser surgeon based in Dallas, consults with many patients who feel energetic and dynamic in the second half of life. “They want to look as good as they feel,” Dr. Roberts says. “They’re taking care of their bodies, and they want their skin and their appearance to reflect that.”

Most of us know that the biggest environmental enemy of our skin is also one of our best friends — the sun.

“Living in Texas, we’re closer to the equator,” Dr. Roberts says. “We have lots of sun year-round, and people like to be outside year-round.” Indications of sun damage include ruddiness of the skin, spider veins, and a dull or yellow appearance, rather than a healthy glow. Sun damage also causes brown spots, sometimes called age spots or liver spots. “Dermatologists call them sun spots, because they are related to the sun,” Dr. Roberts says.

Eighty percent of sun damage to the skin is often done in the first two decades of life, but that doesn’t mean you can’t protect your skin now. Dr. Roberts tells her patients, “If you start using sunscreen at any age, your skin can repair some damage. It’s not just about going forward with sunscreen,” she says. “It actually helps your skin to heal.”

The skin’s second biggest enemy is smoking, which causes decreased blood flow and slower healing. Even someone who has smoked for decades can improve skin health if they quit today. Even more good news for patients is available through treatments such as pixel fractional resurfacing. The laser creates thousands of microscopic spots known as “pixels” which reduces the affected surface area during the treatment, resulting in minimized pain and reduced recovery time (a few days, instead of months required for other resurfacing options.) It is a safe and effective way to treat sun damage, stubborn pigmentation, acne scars, rough texture, enlarged pores, and fine lines.

We didn’t build it

Gratitude recognizes what came before us

November has always been, for me, a month for a particular sense of gratitude. This is partially because Thanksgiving comes in November — that one holiday that has been left mostly untouched by commercialism (with the possible exception of the turkey industry).

For the most part, however, Thanksgiving is still a quiet holiday, untouched by sectarian or political divisions, for simple thankfulness transcends the dark lines we draw to separate us.

To the grateful, there is no“us” and “them,” only one humanity that, in our best moments, realizes that so much in life is not of our own making. We stand on the shoulders of others and benefit from their hard work and loyalty to great ideas and ideals.

This truth comes through in Deuteronomy 6, which says that we drink at cisterns we did not hew and drink from wells we did not dig. One paraphrase is:

“We build on foundations we did not lay/ We warm ourselves at fires we did not light/ We sit in the shade of trees we did not plant/ We drink from wells we did not dig/ We profit from persons we did not know.”

In other words, no generation should ever think of itself as self-sufficient. Whatever we accomplish in life, whatever we build, we build on the foundations laid by others. If we fail to recognize this, we harbor the illusion of self-sufficiency.

If every generation thinks only of itself, we will never make progress. When Israel was ready to enter the Promised Land, they were reminded that they did not build the cities, plant the vineyards, dig the wells or manufacture the goods. They would experience the blessings of the promise, but to be blessed can

easily become hypnotic, and we easily forget the gifts or the givers of the past.

A friend of mine who serves as pastor of a church in New York City tells of a question and answer time in a church capital funds campaign for the nursery and preschool program of the church. One of the sincere questions asked was, “Why should we give to this project when our children will have graduated from the nursery by the time the project is finished?”

In other words, “What’s in it for me?”

The truth of the matter is that as long as we labor only for ourselves, we leave no gifts for those who come after us. November is a good time to consider another way of life — gratefully leaving something for others, investing in a future beyond ourselves, and expressing our deep gratitude for those who did the same for us.

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Part of the nature of gratitude is that it cannot be commanded — it can only be encouraged. Gratitude that is commanded is not really gratitude. Gratitude comes from a willingly grateful heart.

So this month I only encourage you to consider a grateful attitude. After all, it’s the good soil in which you may sow a little something that will grow into something more. Not because you have to, but because you get to. Not reluctantly, but with a measure of gratitude that may begin to multiply, until one day it fills you full.

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The truth of the matter is that as long as we labor only for ourselves, we leave no gifts for those who come after us.

Blair Monie is senior pastor of Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church (phpc.org). The Worship section is a regular feature underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the churches listed on these pages. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

Early risers had a chance to see Tom C. Gooch Elementary students on TV taking part in September’s PARK(ing) Day. During the event, downtown parking spots were turned into temporary spaces that provided spots to read, do yoga, look at art and more. The segment aired on Univision, channel 23, and Telefutura, channel 49.

The Dallas Independent School District launched a new app for iPhones and Androids. The app lets parents and students see grades, bus routes, emergency notifications, cafeteria menus, a calendar and more. The free app, developed by School Connect, is available in English and Spanish at dallasisd.org/mobileapp.

Preston Hollow schoolteachers Rachel Burnett and Susan Bourenane received the Innovations in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Teaching Awards, presented to 12 Dallas ISD teachers by the Texas Instruments Foundation in September. Burnett teaches algebra at W.T. White High School and is the core math teacher for the school’s Engineering Academy. Bourenane teaches technology and computer at George Bannerman Dealey Montessori Vanguard and International Academy. The awards honor secondary math and science teachers that build student achievement in the STEM subjects, a problem area for many students. Each honoree received $10,000, half for personal use and the other half for professional development or instructional technology.

Danielli Costa, gifted math teacher at Thomas Jefferson High, was featured on the September cover of the North Texan, the alumni magazine for the University of North Texas. Costa was hired by the high school last spring. Her students had already seen five teachers come and go, and standardized testing time loomed near. She was ready for the challenge, in part because of the training and experience she received through UNT’s Teach North Texas program, she tells the magazine.

Hillcrest High student Sydney L. Pedigo was named a National Merit Semifinalist. Each year, more than 1.5 million high school juniors take the PSAT test to help qualify for college entrance and scholarships. And each year, students who achieve the top 16,000 scores among all testtakers are named National Merit Semifinalists. About half of the semifinalists will receive $2,500 National Merit scholarships, while the scores of the others help them obtain merit scholarships from colleges.

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Preston Hollow resident Joanne Fay is now a member of the Dallas Parks Foundation board. Fay has served in organizations such as the Women’s Board of the Dallas Opera Guild and Lee Park and Arlington Hall Conservancy, and she has chaired the boards of St. Mark’s School of Texas, LeukemiaTexas, the Dallas Woman’s Club and more.

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Toddler playground dedication

St. Alcuin Montessori School dedicated a toddler playground on its campus in honor of a former student who died in December after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. Little Virginia Franklin , at bottom, and Theo Johnson, Veronica Murray, Helena Magee and Maria Delgado came out for the special naming ceremony of the Chloe Simone Shea Toddler Playground Sept. 7.

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For what it’s ‘Worth’

Sam Childers , a Preston Hollow resident who authored “Images of America: Historic Dallas Hotels” and is pictured at right, spoke at the grand re-opening of the Worth Hotel at Dallas Heritage Village, and the Junior Historians cut the ceremonial ribbon Sept. 27.

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Pride at the parade

Anna Shockley , pictured at right with her husband, Bryan , and daughter, Kathy , at W.T. White’s Homecoming Parade Sept. 27, helped put together the delectable food truck festival that followed. Cheerleader Alyssa Cisneros and cousin Brady Sandoval , above, also showed their school spirit at the parade.

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House PaintinG

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LEAFCHASER’S POOL SERVICE

Parts and Service. Chemicals and Repairs. Jonathan Mossman FREE ESTIMATES 214-729-3311

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a&B GUTTer 972-530-5699

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Someone ran S acked the place.

Jesse Delagarza has not been having good luck lately. The Dallas-area realtor recently had his car broken into at a restaurant. But he was really unprepared for

The Victim: Jesse Delagarza

The Crime: Burglary

Date: Thursday, Sept. 20

Time: Between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Location: 5900 Block of elderwood

what would happen a week later while he was at work.

A burglar cut a screen and slipped in through a cracked window of his home. The place was ransacked and an extensive amount of property was stolen including electronics, jewelry and his ostrich cowboy boots. It was a loss of

several thousands of dollars.

“It’s just a ton of stuff,” Delagarza says of the burglary. “I’m still making a list of what all was taken.”

There is a 24-hour security patrol in their area, but unfortunately they or any other neighbors did not see any suspects.

Officers with the North Central Patrol Division say most home burglars are amateurs looking for easy targets including even a cracked window like in this case. They look for homes presenting the least risk of detection, the greatest opportunity for easy gain and the maximum potential for escape.

Most burglars look for homes appearing unoccupied and unprotected, without adequate locks and lighting, with open or unlocked doors and windows, and home sites with easy concealment from neighbors and passing motorists.

1,180 10.06

Dollar amount of jewelry and cash stolen at about 5:50 p.m. Oct. 8. The suspects entered through the kitchen window of a home on the 3000 block of Merrell and left through the side door.

Date when someone threw a pumpkin at the driver-side mirror of a Honda SUV sometime after 8 p.m. at 5100 Purdue.

Sean Chaffin is a freelance writer and author of “Raising the Stakes”, obtainable at raisingthestakesbook.com. If you have been a recent crime victim, email crime@advocatemag.com.