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COVER> MayOR BEtsy PRiCE.If, as the saying goes, home is where the heart is, then Betsy Price has found a home at Fort Worth City Hall.“I love this town,” said Price, who is currently serving her third term as Mayor of Fort Worth. “I was born here; I grew up here,” she said. “I want Fort Worth to continue to be the best place in the world to live and raise a family. That’s why I love my job.”By PaM HuMPHrey

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16> siBlings and thE aging PaREnt: Ultimately one sibling seems to be the designated caregiver. In the first of two parts, the author provides an intimate overview of how to share responsibility, especially when geography is an issue. Journalist Harriet Blake writes from her personal experience and contacted experts for tips and helpful advice.

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7> CliffORd daVis: Growing up in the segregated South, L Clifford Davis’ personal experience with racism led to lifetime of advocating for fairness and justice. Davis became an attorney to fight for equality in education, housing and employment and to remove barriers to any bus seat, lunch counter and restroom. At 91, he still goes to work everyday at his office with the law firm of Johnson, Vaughn & Heiskell. Davis continues to love the work that drew him to Fort Worth more than six decades ago to provide legal counsel to an underserved black community.

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We trust the holidays were good to you and your great expectations for the new year come to pass.

Here at The Senior Voice, we are so excited to expand to Tarrant County with a separate edition beginning with this first issue of 2016.

Our January–February edition brings you covers on our local mayors: Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is featured on the Dallas County edition; Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price graces the cover of our Tarrant County edition.

Mike Rawlings is in his second term as Dallas mayor and as writer Harriet Gross says, he is a big believer in Dallas as the “City of Opportunity.” After coming to town with $200 in his pocket, he worked his way up to become CEO of Pizza Hut. He a vocal opponent of domestic violence and sees seniors as a vital resource in town.

Betsy Price is in her third term in Fort Worth and is not only working hard for FW, but as writer P.A. Humphrey says, is keeping Fort Worth on its toes, encouraging residents to ride their bikes and be “Fit Worth.” She is proud of Fort Worth’s position as the 16th largest city in the United States and at the same time, proud of its small-town feel.

As we honor the birthday of Martin Luther King this month and celebrate Black History month in February, we recognize Tarrant County civil rights pioneer, Clifford Davis. Sixty years ago, he became

an attorney to fight for equality and at the age of 91 is still hard at work. Writer Marice Richter chronicles Mr. Davis’ lifetime of advocacy.

Caring for the aging parent, especially long distance, is a subject that many can relate to. Author Harriet Blake discusses the difficulties that ensue based on personal experience as well as the experiences of others. Professionals weigh in with advice on the best ways to manage.

The 120th Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo takes place from Jan. 15 to Feb. 6. In addition to the usual rodeo and stock show competitions, this year’s event will take time on various days to recognize the military, breast cancer survivors and Cowboys of Color.

Valentine’s Day is not far off and Love is ON the air — Learn how Barbara Eden still loves being Genie and reminisce with Betty Lynn, Barney Fife’s girlfriend on The Andy Griffith Show, as she shares her role at the Andy Griffin Museum in Mount Airy, NC.

What a better way to celebrate Valentines Day than with a healthy aphrodisiac, chocolate. Dark chocolate especially is good for your heart — emotionally and physically. Respectfully and in JOY,

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the tarrant area Gerontological society (taGs) was established in the 1990s as a way to educate professionals who were interested in industries related to senior citizens’ care and other aging issues, says matt newton, the organization’s president. taGs also offers advocacy for the aging in the county and provides networking opportunities. it is a mission that has grown over the decades, says newton, as the needs of those aging within society changes and new knowledge becomes available.

“i think the most important thing that taGs does is the education role and being able to provide an all-encompassing place where we can provide good, quality education to a broad spectrum of professionals,” he says. Joining the society is simple and affordable, says newton.

“we charge $30 for a year,” he says, pointing out that memberships are available online at www.tagstarrant.org. Partnering with the society enables members to participate in free or discounted taGs events.

“that’s when you can really build relationships and hopefully see a return on your investment; if nothing else, just to be plugged into an organization that has hundreds of members across tarrant county makes sense.”

“…if you had a referral that you needed help with, or you wanted to make a referral to somebody that you built a relationship with, you could do that,” he says. “or, just to get the education.

we have a lot of professionals who aren’t into the networking; social workers, case management, nursing. People all across the gerontological spectrum who utilize us for the hours of education that we give away both free and the ones that we do charge for.”

taGs is also a great resource for non-members, newton says. “if you’re somebody from the outside looking for a particular service… we have our website and we have an amazing virtual administrative assistant… who keeps contact with all of our members and pretty much knows everybody and everything they do and can really start to try to direct them, give them multiple options of people that are plugged in…”

“caring for these folks who are living longer and wanting to stay independent longer — the more we are able to know about them, about their history, about how to better take care of them, i think it’s just better for all of tarrant county.”

tHe tarraNt area GerONtOlOGical SOciety (taGS)Advocacy at its finest By Mike McGee

2016 African American Caregiver SeminarFrom knowing the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease to finding help, coping with

challenges, and managing stress, a confident caregiver faces dementia and takes charge.

Join us at the:

2016 AfriCAn AmeriCAn CAregiver SeminAr fACing DementiA AnD tAking ChArge

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organizations that serve caregivers. There is no charge to attend but reservations are required.

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Alzheimer’s Association – North Central Texas Chapter 2630 West Fwy, Suite 100

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Growing up in the segregated south, L clifford Davis’ personal experience with racism led to lifetime of advocating for fairness and justice.

Davis became an attorney to fight for equality in education, housing and employment and to remove barriers to any bus seat, lunch counter and restroom.

“all of this is good for the general public and benefits society as a whole,” said Davis.

at 91, he still goes to work everyday at his office with the law firm of Johnson, vaughn & heiskell. Davis continues to love the work that drew him to Fort worth more than six decades ago to provide legal counsel to an underserved black community.

now, he mostly handles probate work and helps pro bono clients.

“at my age, i don’t do contested work anymore,” he said.

early in his career, Davis worked alongside others to challenge segregation policies in the mansfield and Fort worth school districts and filed education equality lawsuits similar to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

he also served for nearly 20 years as a district judge in tarrant county.

Growing up in rural arkansas, Davis experienced the injustice of segregation and the degradation of bigotry. he recalled being stoned by white children on his way to school as a youngster.

Davis said he was inspired to go to law school by his own experience and the courageous civil rights work of scipio Jones, a black attorney who successfully led the appeals of 12 black sharecroppers sentenced to death for participating in a race riot in the arkansas Delta in 1919.

after graduating from historically black Philander smith college in arkansas in 1945, Davis began law school at howard university, also a black school, in washington, D.c.

before finishing, he left howard to attend graduate school at atlanta university. he then decided to return to law school and made a bold decision to apply to the all-white university of arkansas. in 1948, he became the first black person to be admitted but chose to return to howard in 1949.

his challenge of arkansas’ segregated admission policies opened the

door for other blacks to attend professional schools.

among the many honors and awards he has received over the years are the naacP’s william robert ming award and the tarrant county bar association’s blackstone award and silver Gavel award, the highest honors given to an attorney and a judge respectively.

“there was a time when i couldn’t belong to the tarrant county bar association and now i have received their two highest honors,” he said.

Davis was also inducted into the national bar association’s hall of Fame and is a 2015 winner of a Lifetime achievement award from Texas Lawyer. a 2015 recipient of special recognition from Fort Worth Business, he also has a Fort worth isD elementary school named in his honor.

“he is a real jewel and we have been fortunate to have had him in our community for such a long time,” said Fort worth attorney roland Johnson, a past president of the state bar of texas. “he has ruffled some feathers over the years but he always does it with courage and grace.”

Davis said serving the community and seeing fairness and justice prevail have been a source of pride during the past 66 years.

“i’ve enjoyed my life,” he said. “i am a happy old man.”

A Walk into Our Neighborhood

l. cliFFOrD DaviS FOuGHt FOr equality Legal counsel to an underserved black communityBy Marice Richter


elva roy and ambassadors For agingHelping Arlington and the Mid-Cities civic community get ready for the Silver Tsunami By Amy Martin

“Be the kind of woman who when your feet hit the floor in the morning the devil says ‘Oh no, she’s up!’ ”in the case of elva roy, it’s not the devil but arlington officials that feel the tremor. the intrepid roy, age 70, felt so inspired by the summit in Grand Prairie — ranked in the top ten of senior centers in the u.s. — that she pressed the city of arlington for its first senior center. a vote to approve a quarter-cent sales tax increase for it and other civic improvements will now happen next fall.

“officials in places like arlington have heard of the silver tsunami, know that it’s coming, but don’t know what to do, what to change,” says roy, chief rabble-rouser for ambassadors For aging (aFa). “that’s where we come in. we want to help them understand how to make life better for older adults.”

roy became interested in senior issues before she reached retirement age. she struggled for several years being a caretaker for her mother, who suffered from dementia and languished in an arlington nursing home until her passage.

“wish i knew then what i know now,” says roy, referring to her lack of understanding of dementia treatment options and available support services such as home health care. “after that experience i decided i wanted to make things better for older people.”

though roy had lived and raised children in arlington and the mid-cities, “when i retired in 2011, i realized that i didn’t know anything about my hometown, even though i’d been here for decades,” says roy. “i decided to get involved and engaged.”

about that time, united way and the university of texas at arlington organized focus groups on elderly issues. roy jumped in. the determined half-dozen left at the end of the process became age-Friendly arlington, now ambassadors For aging, with over 200 members.

with an arlington senior center in motion, roy and activists plan to focus on transportation. “arlington is the largest u.s. city without mass transit,” says roy, noting that current senior ride services focus mainly on doctor visits and do little to counter elderly isolation.

another focus is visitability standards that help those using mobility-assist devices such as walkers, wheelchairs and scooters. roy sites three easy things that make a difference: having one no-step entrance (even on the side or back), wider hallways and doors, and at least a half-bath on the main floor.

to join roy in her quest for an age-friendly world, visit ambassadorsForaging.org. all are welcome, but those with graphic design, mailchimp, and website skills fit a great need. For more on civic efforts to empower the elderly, visit age Friendly initiatives at the world health organization.



Bob Jones and His legacy:A freed slave became one the area’s largest landownersBy Marice Richter

the name bob Jones is well-known in southlake. the man whose name is memorialized on a road, a sprawling park, a resplendent nature center and preserve was a freed slave who became one of the area’s largest landowners.

John Dolford “bob” Jones was born a slave in 1850, the son of white slaveholder Leazer alvis Jones and his slave elizabeth. Leazer Jones left his wife and four children in arkansas before the civil war and traveled with elizabeth and their mixed-race children to texas, where he bought land in northern tarrant county.

a slave himself, bob worked as a sheepherder on his father’s farm. at the end of the civil war, bob, his brother and mother were set free and they bought the 60-acre farm Leazer Jones left behind to return to his white family in arkansas.

in 1874, bob Jones married almeady chisum, the mixed-race daughter of legendary texas cattleman John chisum and his slave, Jensie. the couple and their 10 children expanded the farm to nearly 2,000 acres, one of the largest holdings in present day southlake, according to the southlake historical society.

the Jones family built a log house that was eventually expanded to an impressive two-story structure with a balcony and wraparound porches.

a successful farmer and rancher, Jones hired black and white sharecroppers and workers for his operation. he built a family church and the one-room walnut Grove school for his children and other nearby black children, who were banned from attending white schools. the carroll school district’s walnut Grove elementary school, its newest school built in 2012, was named as a tribute to the Jones schoolhouse.

“he hired teachers from Dallas during the summer to come teach at the school,” recalled his grandson, bobby Jones, who grew up on the farm and grew up to become an epidemiologist for tarrant county.

after his death in 1936, his children planned to carry on the legacy of farming and ranching the Jones family land. but misfortune fell upon mount carmel baptist church and homestead, which burned down. eventually, the school closed and the building deteriorated and crumbled.

the Jones land was located near a tributary of the elm Fork of the trinity river that was selected by the u.s. army corps of engineers as the site of Grapevine Lake. most of the Jones family land was acquired by the federal government in the 1940s for the lake.

some Jones family descendants held onto small plots until the 1990s, but most of the heirs moved away to find work. bobby Jones said his father, emory Jones, and uncle, Jinks Jones, opened an auction barn. Frequent auctions took place at the dusty site at white’s chapel road and state highway 114 from 1947 until 1984. the brothers’ wives — Lula and elnora — ran a café to feed the auction-goers, travelers and truckers who hauled rocks from bridgeport to Grapevine for the lake’s dam.

it is regarded as the first integrated café in texas.

a Jones family tradition that began in the 1800s and continued at the auction barn site was an annual harvest picnic and barbecue. by the 1960s, it lasted three days and included baseball games, music and dancing and a carnival, which drew up to 1,000 people per day, according to a southlake historical society.

bob Jones was so well known and respected that his funeral drew a crowd of “500, which jammed the white people’s church” and was attended by as many whites as blacks, according to the historical society account based on a newspaper report.

“bob Jones was truly an american success story,” said Debra edmondson, president of the board of the bob Jones nature center and Preserve. “and i’m proud to say that we continue to tell that story.”

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2016 FOrt WOrtH StOck SHOWWe love our rodeo!By Mike McGee

visitors to the 2016 Fort worth stock show and rodeo website are greeted with the grand tag line “this thing is legendary.”

the event, celebrating 120 years of western tradition and pageantry, has the history and modern attractions to back up such a claim, says matt brockman, publicity manager of the Fwssr.

“when we put our stock show and rodeo together each year we try to put something together in a format that has got broad appeal,” he notes. the undertaking represents the culture that put Fort worth on the map and draws more than one million visitors every year.

this year’s Fwssr events are almost too numerous to mention, brockman says. the Junior Livestock show. the cowboy mounted shooting exhibition. the famous indoor rodeo.

brockman also points out that the ranch rodeo program is something that will be unique for visitors as it depicts historical activities that are still used in modern ranching.

“Just for me, and i think just for thousands of people who come through our doors… it’s heartwarming to see events like that that tie us back to our roots that connect us, i think, as texans to our identity,” brockman says.

Diversity and community causes are represented as well. “… we go to our best of mexico celebracion… that’s held on sunday the seventeenth. after that on monday is martin Luther king Day. we have more of a traditional rodeo event called cowboys of color,” he says.

“history books and obviously hollywood hasn’t depicted reality when it comes to the early

trail-driving days and the genesis of ranching of texas.” brockman estimates that up to half of the cowboys on cattle drives were african american and hispanic.

stock show Goes Pink takes place Jan. 26. on that day 50% of general admission and rodeo ticket sales will go to the Greater Fort worth affiliate of susan G. komen for the cure. and on Feb. 1, active or retired military personnel can present their military identification at the rodeo ticket box office and receive free tickets for their immediate family and themselves for the rodeo performance at 2pm or 7:30pm.

the Fort worth stock show and rodeo runs from Jan. 15 to Feb. 6. a full schedule of events can be found at www.frssr.com.

she’s not the mayor. not the chief of police. not the city councilwoman. she’s bobbi arthur, as important and respected as those community partners who make haltom city a great place for seniors.

and she can multitask like an octopus. During our interview she gave me a tour and plenty of attention while doing phone Pr, directing volunteers, arranging next week’s meals, showing off thanksgiving photos on a Facebook page she created, checking on someone’s health and giving the ceramics and quilting groups a big vote of approval.

as supervisor of the haltom city senior center for over two decades, bobbi oversees a facility that includes a professional kitchen, large dining/event hall, classrooms, library, poolroom, computer room, ceramics studio and administrative area. outside, one of only two designated senior parks in the country features a gazebo and walking trail.

her goal is twofold: education and

independence. after 13 years as a nurse’s aide, she knows what happens in a nursing home. “you sit down, you die. i believe you should get dressed and go somewhere every day.”

that’s why there’s always something to do like learning the computer, playing food bank bingo, quilting, painting, taking trips or practicing smart driving. she brings in experts to discuss health, legal issues, tax

prep, voting, medicare open enrollment and housing opportunities. currently the center has about 400 members, with 155 new people joining this year (each one got a handwritten welcome from bobbi). that’s 21,349 meals served, but who’s counting.

and then there’s the scooter rodeo.

as we visit i notice that bobbi the people person moves seamlessly into bobbi the business manager, rattling off statistics, laws, budgets and by-laws. she’s an industry insider with contacts from aarP to Zoning (including congress). no

wonder haltom city was the recipient of the senior citizen services prestigious senior spirit award. that same charisma gets lots of people to come to her picnics, pool tournaments and Dallas cowboys cheerleaders events. there’s even a pet food bank where volunteer rodney Greenlee delivers pet food to seniors in need.

she’s so excited to tell me they’re gearing up for september 2016 (it’s national senior month) and hosting the tarrant county senior Jamboree at ymca camp carter in Fort worth. this free event brings hundreds of area seniors, leaders and providers together in a beautiful setting with

lakes, trails and nature sanctuary.

her parting thought, “although my father, a fire chief, is gone, i think i always want to channel that level of service into everything i do.”

and that she does.

luNcH FOr a HuNDreD? Piece of cakeBy Debra Goldie Jones

“Although my father, a fire

chief, is gone, I think I always

want to channel that level of service into

everything I do.”


Watching Joy

watching Joy, the mesmerizing dysfunctional family drama-with-comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, robert De niro and bradley cooper, this thought kept running through my mind:

“is there anything Jennifer Lawrence can’t do?”

the answer is apparently not, at least on a movie screen. Lawrence is already a three-time academy

award nominee and a best actress winner for her performance as a troubled young woman in Silver Linings Playbook in 2012. the 25-year-old actress takes center stage in this based-on-real-life saga of Miracle Mop inventor Joy mangano.

Lawrence returns to the oscar hunt with the same grim determination she displayed so well in Winter’s Bone, her gritty breakout film of 2010.

much of the movie-going world knows Lawrence as katniss everdeen, the steely eyed champion of the common people in the Hunger Games fantasy action franchise. it is Lawrence’s ability to alternate between mass appeal projects and meaty acting challenges like Joy that could keep Lawrence on top for the long run; a la sandra bullock or even meryl streep.

at first i was slightly thrown off by the way director/co-screenwriter David o. russell opens this film with a darkly comic spoof of a tv soap opera that serves as the bizarre Greek chorus in this riveting four-generational biography.

Joy is a 1980s young single new york mom so blitzed by the loser cards life has dealt her that she barely reacts when her divorced dad (De niro) moves into her basement after yet another failed relationship. Joy’s ex tony (edgar ramirez), a lounge singer with dreams of becoming the next tom Jones, is already living down there. his words of welcome to his former father-in-law: “you touch my microphone and i will kill you.”

even though Joy appears stunned by her struggles, Lawrence is skilled enough to show through her eyes that no matter how tough life gets, she will eventually take charge.

De niro is also magnificent as rudy, a father with anger issues and no rudder to navigate his own stormy life waters. bradley plays it low-key as the Qvc television exec who sees the value in Joy’s revolutionary mop, taking a backseat to his leading lady. that was not the case with Silver Linings Playbook, also directed by russell.

Joy (rated PG-13), though a tough emotional ride, is 126 minutes well spent. on my scale of 1-to-4 jalapeños, it earns an outstanding 3½.

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GettiNG reelBy Larry Ratliff

eugene burdick and william Lederer were very smart when they wrote “The Ugly American.” they first penned it as a real-time expose of our country’s inept official representatives to foreign countries. but when they realized that no one would want to believe this, they rewrote their book as fiction. after it was published in 1951, everyone took it seriously.

Plano gastroenterologist michael weisberg has shown the same wisdom with his novel, “The Hospitalist.” it’s a fictionalized expose of what’s become a trend in american medicine today:

specialists see patients until they need more than office visits can provide, but upon admission to hospitals, they’re turned over to the new breed of doctors now responsible for follow-up. the problem: these “hospitalists” have never seen their new patients before and don’t know them as the referring doctor does…but that doctor is no longer the caregiver.

Dr. weisberg first introduces three characters who would seem to have nothing in common: an incredibly racist klan member from backwater Florida; an incredibly bright little boy from the slums of mumbai, india; and an incredibly dedicated medical student at nashville’s vanderbilt university. over the course of some 300 fast-reading pages, these lives converge and interact. the results — given today’s hospitalist system, which affects them all — are not pretty. the inevitabilities include loss of moral compass, valuation of money above humanity, and even death.

this book’s characters are not highly nuanced; the reader has little difficulty telling the bad guys from the good ones, although there are a few surprises. there are also forays into events and situations that allow Dr. weisberg to include a fair amount of sex and blue language, along with a more-than-equal sprinkling of medical terminology; he invokes lots of procedures without explanation, but you can make sense of them from context and won’t have to look them up unless you’re extra-curious. and he’s not above inserting a few bits of sly humor; for example, one of his main characters is an indian doctor whose last name, “Givagushrai,” bears a striking — and certainly intended! — similarity to a yiddish word loosely translated as “let out a big scream”!

the author’s own medical credentials are beyond reproach; the book’s back cover proudly proclaims that he’s been named to D Magazine’s “best doctor” list eight times, and has also achieved recognition as one of Texas Monthly’s “super Doctors.” and he is serious about his concern for how the hospitalist system reflects a change in u.s. medicine’s emphasis from healing to business. michael weisberg’s “ugly americans” are not overseas, however; they are very much with us here at home!

The Hospitalist by michael weisberg, m.D., from Lulu Publishing services, is available on amazon in paperback at $17.99 or for your kindle at $1.99, or as a barnes and noble nook book, also at $1.99.

BetWeeN tHe cOverSBy Harriet P. Gross

riNG iN tHe NeW year WitH SecurityBy Lori A. Leu

the new year is a time for fresh starts and optimistic outlooks. your holiday to-do lists are complete; why not welcome 2016 with a checklist that will provide peace of mind throughout this year, and the years to come? ensuring that the following items are in place and updated on a regular basis will help protect you and your loved ones, no matter what the future holds.

n Will — the primary purpose of a will is to declare your intentions regarding the distribution of your property after your death. the type of will that you need and the way in which your property should be distributed depends upon your particular circumstances and desires.

n durable Power of attorney – a statutory durable power of attorney is used to appoint an agent to act in your place regarding financial and legal transactions and is arguably the most important document in your planning portfolio.

n Medical Power of attorney — a medical power of attorney enables another person to make health care decisions that you would otherwise make, if you were able. a doctor must declare you to be incapacitated before this authority becomes effective.

n directive to Physicians and family or surrogates (living Will) — a living will provides direction regarding your desires to administer, withhold, or withdraw life-sustaining treatment if you have an irreversible or terminal condition.

n authorization to Release Medical information — in 2003, the health insurance Portability and accountability act of 1996 (hiPaa) took effect. hiPaa contains medical privacy rules that restrict disclosure of health information by health care providers and plans. a hiPaa authorization allows the individuals that you specify to have access to your health information so they can assist in decisions regarding your care.

n declaration of guardian — Further protect your interests by declaring the individuals that you would like to be appointed as guardian over you and your estate (as well as individuals who should not be appointed).

n long-term Care insurance — americans are living longer than ever, and the cost of care in the final years of life has risen dramatically. a long-term care insurance plan can help ensure that you have good options for quality care, when the time comes.

this year, resolve to plan for your future, today. check these items off your new year’s List and alleviate the stress that can occur when care issues turn into a crisis, so that you can enjoy a fresh and optimistic start to your new year.

Lori Leu, Erin Peirce, Lauren Olson, and Laura Chavero are Elder Law attorneys with Leu & Peirce, located in Plano, Texas. They can be reached at 972-996-2540

Becoming a crazy auntBy Amy Martin

hippiedom is superb training for being the crazy aunt. a good hippie embraces each day as a unique gift overflowing with creative potential and opportunities to connect and serve. we are the keepers of the

carpe diem. my heart melts each time my grandnieces greet me at family gatherings with the expectation of “what is our adventure today?”

my play with this trio of bright souls ages 4 to 10 started with make believe, enacting characters and scenes from movies and plays they’d seen. the conflations were great. minions from Despicable Me invaded Frozen scenes, with random ceramic bulldogs off the bookshelves joining with My Little Ponies to save the day. i am in awe of their creativity.

our great girl science period began when i showed up with kinetic sand, the new generation of Play-Doh: sand with just enough plastic resin to stick together under pressure. with tools, molds and tints we could build just about anything. and make a glorious mess. beach scenes and castles with moats quickly ramped up to contests for making the most elaborate cupcake ala the Great british bakeoff.

but you have to keep up your cool quotient or risk losing the weird aunt title. so i introduced them to the glories of instamorph, plastic granules that soften in hot water to create gooey blobs. through trial and error, we discovered how hot the water had to be to soften the instamorph and for how long. much discussion of boogers arose at this point. we determined how to mix the tint pellets into the soft plastic.

roles naturally arose among the sisters, each taking the task that best suited them. i found my niche among them and we transformed into an instamorphing machine. we stretched, twisted, and shaped the soft plastic into bracelets, bunnies, and magic rings. i stretched the instamorph to saran-wrap thinness and made a cast of my nose and a macabre ghost finger that i teased them with, assuring my weird aunt title for quite some time.

For christmas, we went to Lone star circus, a local cirque du soliel outfit with clowns, acrobats, and jugglers, even professional hula hoopers and trained cats. ideas were spinning out of their little blond heads afterward. the family gathering at easter this year will be very interesting.

Fortunate me, i am the one they’ll tell stories about to their friends when they’re older, the one who made their life a little more colorful, who showed them they could be forever young. to paraphrase oliver wendell holmes sr., “Girls do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.”

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BO kNOWS SPOrtS Gary Patterson Football Intensity Belies Unseen KindnessesBy Bo Carter

on the surface, tcu head football coach Gary Patterson is one of the most intense football minds and mentors in the collegiate game.

inside, Patterson has a kind heart and a wife kelsey who shares his love for people and causes as diverse as student scholarships and shelters for underserved women.

in the past 14 years, the Gary Patterson Foundation (GPF) has assisted numerous groups such as the Giving back team. the team is comprised of children from Presbyterian night shelter, which has raised area awareness about abused and neglected animals in east Fort worth and the downtown area.

the GPF also has worked with George c. clarke elementary school to help support an anti-gang campaign, a campus beautification project and a pajama drive for safe haven house. twenty-two other area organizations have benefitted from the work of the foundation and its generosity.

Patterson acknowledges his desire to help youngsters and the disadvantaged, especially in the tarrant county and metro DFw areas. while modest, he realizes the impact it has made on thousands of lives.

“we want to reinforce that it takes a team effort to make a difference,” Patterson said. “the team of volunteers and everyone who attends our annual fundraising event are part of the Foundation family.”

as for the intense Patterson, it’s hard to ignore the driving and football-savvy force that has helped the horned Frogs win a school-record (for 15 years) 142 games since 2001 and prior to the post-2015 bowl season while also capturing 89 of 122 games in three different conferences – conference usa, mountain west and big 12 – over that same era: all school records.

the tcu taskmaster came through this year with possibly his best coaching season (though he has 10-plus victories in five of the last seven years at the helm) as he guided the squad to a 10-2 pre-bowl mark and 7-2 mark in the big 12 to tie for second place. there were 23 players on the ’15 squad who missed at least one game with injuries in an almost-surreal rash of physical maladies.

still, Gary Patterson relies on that will to win and motivation of players (as well as his coaching/teaching skills) to roll to the best individual coaching record in tcu football annals. his penchant for calling sideline defensive signals and getting the most out of players are almost unmatched nationally.


If, as the saying goes, home is where the heart is, then Betsy Price has found a home at Fort Worth City Hall.“i love this town,” said Price, who is currently serving her third term as mayor of Fort worth.

“i was born here; i grew up here,” she said. “i want Fort worth to continue to be the best place in the world to live and raise a family. that’s why i love my job.”

Price might be best known as “the mayor on wheels.” she is a cycling enthusiast and under her leadership, the city has become a major biking community, with riding groups, rallies and miles of new bike lanes and trails. Price’s walking and rolling town halls have gotten press around the nation. once a month, the mayor and other city officials wheel into one Fort worth neighborhood or another to meet up with and answer questions from residents, many of them on bicycles themselves.

“it’s absolutely the best office because you can impact people’s lives on a daily basis,” she said. “you can get out and hear a lot about your community, connecting with people, visiting with them. it’s a tremendous place to help make a better future.”

Price’s baby is Fit worth, the city’s initiative to ensure residents live healthier, better-quality lives. that includes making the city a better place for seniors, too, she said.

“Part of what we want to achieve is what we call “successful aging,” Price said. “that’s the attitude that people don’t really retire, they remain connected to their community and use their skills to make it a better place to live. one of our objectives is to be a place where residents can “age in place,” meaning they can stay in their own homes as long as possible.”

through a program called the blue Zones Project® the city’s community centers have begun offering social clubs, walking groups, healthy cooking classes, and other social and educational offerings for seniors.

the city, itself, has added sidewalks, biking infrastructure and walking trails. schools, along with restaurants and businesses, have been

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encouraged to join in the healthy community initiative.

Fort worth is one of 20 cities in the u.s. selected to be part of the project. it is the brainchild of author Dan buettner, who, in conjunction with the national Geographic society, studied communities around the globe and designated some as “blue Zones,” where people age without suffering the common illnesses of old age, because of their healthier lifestyles.

Part of Price’s vision for a healthier Fort worth is turning it into a place where people can ditch their cars and use alternative modes of transportation, like buses and, ultimately, an affordable, convenient light rail system. Pedestrian-friendly urban villages, with close-in shopping and generous walking lanes and crosswalks are part of the plan, too, Price said.

“one of the worst things that older people face is a limited transportation. when you lose your ability to drive, you lose your freedom,” the mayor said. “when my mother couldn’t drive any more -- she was a fiercely independent woman -- she got an mits (mobility-impaired transportation service) pass and went all over town by herself. i’d like to see more of that.”

Fort worth, which started out as an army outpost on the trinity river and grew into a major cattle town, today, has a population of almost 800,000. it is one of the fastest growing and most diverse cities in the country, according to the 2010 census.

Price said she’s dedicated to seeing the city through growth and modernization, while maintaining the small town character that she remembers from growing up on the city’s west side in the ’50 and ‘60s.

Price is a former rodeo club sweetheart, who, as a teen, spent weekends cruising local drive-ins with her friends. it was an era of muscle cars, rock ‘n’ roll, mini-skirts and bell-bottoms, teen clubs and anti-vietnam war protests in trinity Park.

“we hung out at Joe vines on camp bowie; it was a little hamburger joint,” said Price, who graduated from arlington heights high school in 1968. “occasionally we’d go down camp bowie to university and carlson’s Drive-in, where kids from all over town showed up to cruise the parking lot. it was a fun time.”

being a politician was not something she planned on, however.

Price graduated from the university of texas in arlington, married her high school boyfriend, tom, a real estate executive and had three children. the daughter of a car dealer, she opened a title service, doing title work and property taxes for most the city’s auto lots. that experience ultimately convinced her to run for tarrant county tax accessor/collector.

“i always thought that office was not very well done,” she said. “they weren’t really geared to working with businesses and they were doing $3 billion a year in tax collections. i kept saying, ‘someone needs to straighten this office out,’ and my clients kept saying, ‘that someone needs to be you.’”

Price won and served from 2000-2011, almost four terms in office. the mayor’s job opened up in the last year of her fourth.

“when [mayor mike moncrief] left, people kept telling me i needed to run for mayor and i was like, ‘arrrgh,’ because that’s a lot more political and a lot more responsibility.”

after some convincing, she decided to run and won election in 2011.

by most accounts, Price has been a successful one. she ran unopposed for her last term in may.

many community activists credit Price with being the most open Fort worth mayor, ever. she has called for input from residents, set up a website for suggestions, pushed through initiatives to make city government friendlier to the city’s increasingly diverse population. she was the first Fort worth mayor to ride in a gay pride parade.

she may have reached “retirement age,” but

Price isn’t ready to hang up her gavel or her bicycle helmet just yet.

“i plan on running for another term, barring anything unforeseen happening” she said. “i’ve still got work to do.”

Price has had the usual run-ins with the police union over overtime pay, scrutiny over travel expenses and criticism by some activists who claim she’s a little too close to the downtown big-money/developer crowd.

Price’s biggest obstacle, however, is in convincing long-time residents that the nature of the city won’t change under her watch. the concern has focused on recent debates over renovation of the historic north side stockyards district.

“it’s one of the things i hear most often from the community,” she said. “well, it’s not going to change. the stockyards [area], is critical to the tourist trade and the business trade of this city, as well. besides, it’s just one of our jewels.”

the city council is committed to keeping Fort worth, Fort worth, Price said.

“there has to be some rehabilitation because if we don’t, we’re going to have demolition by neglect if we’re not careful,” she said. “i mean there are going to be changes, but changes for the better. we’re not going to change the fabric of the stockyards.

“People come here because Fort worth is a big city, 16th largest in the nation, but they like it because it has that small-town feel” the mayor said. “keeping that, that’s our biggest challenge.”

researchers at the university of texas health science center in Fort worth have discovered a breakthrough remedy for hot flashes, mood swings and other symptoms of menopause without the safety risks associated with hormone replacement therapy.

the promising therapy known as DheD is a departure from hormone replacement therapy that delivers estrogen throughout a woman’s body, increasing the risk of cancer. instead, DheD would target delivery straight to the brain.

“the chemical gets into the brain, where it is useful and metabolizes to estrogen, but it doesn’t affect the rest of the body,” said Dr. Laszlo Prokai, professor and robert a. welch chair in biochemistry at the unt health science center.

the study of the experimental treatment led by Prokai was reported in the July issue of the academic journal “science translational medicine.”

DheD is still undergoing research and is years away from being available on the market. but Prokai said serious effort is underway to find a drug manufacturer willing to take the therapy to next step of clinical trials.

For decades the standard treating for symptoms of menopause has been hormone replacement therapy, which provides relief by infusing estrogen and progesterone into menopausal women to bolster the diminishing hormones in their bodies,

Premarin, produced from estrogens found in the urine of pregnant horses, was introduced in the united states in 1942 and continued to be la leader in hrt therapy.

but in 2002, the women’s health initiative of the national institutes of health found increased incidence of breast cancer, heart attacks and stroke, particularly in women over age 60.

Due to the findings, women are advised to take hrt in low dosage for a short period of time.

researchers have found that menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, depression and sleep deprivation last can last for a decade or more.

“that’s why it is important to develop a system to treat the symptoms and improve quality of life without the health risks,” Prokai said.

DheD also holds promise for victims of some types of strokes and other neurological conditions, he said.

Prokai said it could take nearly a decade before the drug is widely available for women. the process involves clinical trials and winning approval from the u.s. Food and Drug administration.

MeNOPauSe BreaktHrOuGH reMeDy! By Marice Richter

the cellphone beeps. it’s my sister, again. “mom is having a bad day. she lost one of her hearing aids and thinks the nurse took it.”

a few days earlier: “mom’s checking account has been hacked. we need to close her account and open a new one.”

and the week before that: “mom is hallucinating. she told me she saw Dad in her room but he wouldn’t speak to her.”

what can i say to alleviate the situation? i’m in texas, my sister lives in new york — about half a mile away from our mother’s assisted living facility. all i can do is text, email and call back to let my sister vent. my next trip to see them is later this month. i will try to spend a few days smoothing things over.

but it’s never enough. how do you care for an aging parent from a distance? and how do you share the burden with the sibling who has become the designated caregiver? a friend who’s been in the same position says, it is tough to weigh in on decisions from a distance — whether they are medical, financial or emotional. “once my father reached the point of needing nursing home care, my siblings and i met in person (the four of us live in three different cities) to discuss how we could help. we made an agenda, appointed a leader and made a plan. it was messy, and, in many ways, unpleasant, but far better than trying to do by phone.”

teresa whittington, vice President of community services at cc young senior Living/senior care, says she has observed many families struggle with this dilemma. “most of the time,” she says, “one child ends up with the majority of the responsibility.” she recommends the following for siblings caring for aging parents.

1. Proactively have a family meeting — if possible while both parents are cognitively intact, to discuss medical and financial power of attorney and their specific wishes regarding end-of-life treatments. when families are in crisis, it is difficult to have these discussions. a lot of emotions can lead to poor conversations and outcomes.

2. if one sibling is going to be the primary caregiver, the other siblings need to plan to give them a break (3-5 days) on a quarterly basis if not more. siblings should call their parent and siblings weekly. send thank-you notes and/or small gifts to the primary caregiver to make them feel appreciated.

3. Find out what resources are available in the community to assist the primary caregiver.

4. other siblings should educate themselves on the disease process so they understand what the caregiver is dealing with.

5. if the family has not had any prior discussions and is in crisis mode, they should contact a social worker who can facilitate the family conversation.

african–americans are hard hit by alzheimer’s disease. the alzheimer’s association reports that older african–americans are about twice as likely to have alzheimer’s and other dementias as older whites. health conditions such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, which increase risk for dementia, are believed to account for these differences, as they are more prevalent in african–american people.

the association predicts that over the next 30 years, the number of african–americans entering the age of risk more than doubles to 6.9 million.

ten percent of the 15 million americans providing unpaid care for people with alzheimer’s and other dementias are african-american. the national alliance for caregiving indicates that this 10 percent spends approximately 30 hours a week caring for a loved one.

as an organization dedicated to assisting those caring for someone with dementia, the alzheimer’s association–north central texas chapter presents a half-day seminar intended to help caregivers learn how to be confident, educated and healthy. Facing Dementia and Taking Charge will be saturday, Feb. 20, 2016, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the student center of tarrant county college–south campus.

“From knowing the signs and symptoms of alzheimer’s disease to finding help, coping with challenges, and managing stress, a confident caregiver faces dementia and takes charge,” said north central texas chapter Program manager shelly young. “our goal is to support caregivers, whether they are new to the role or if they’ve been caring for someone for years. we want to give them tools and resources to help them care for themselves while caring for someone they love.”

Facing Dementia features several programs and vendors. speakers include marshawn brown who serves as national director of Facing Dementia features several programs and vendor. speakers include marshawn brown, who serves as national director of diversity and inclusion for the alzheimer’s association, and tarrant county commissioner roy brooks (Precinct 1).

the 2016 african-american caregiver seminar is open to the public at no charge; however, registration is requested by calling 800.272.3900. check-in begins at 8:30am, and morning refreshments and lunch will be provided.

For more information about programs and services provided by the alzheimer’s association–north central texas chapter, visit alz.org/northcentraltexas.

Siblings and the aging ParentSharing Care Across the MilesFirst of a two-Part SeriesBy Harriet Blake

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Ten percent of the 15 million Americans providing unpaid care for people with Alzheimer’s and other dementias are African-American. If you are caring for a loved one, join us Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 for Facing Dementia and Taking Charge, a caregiver seminar filled with tools and resources for facing the challenge of dementia.


as chief of of Geriatric medicine at texas health Presbyterian hospital Dallas, my goal for the aging population is to promote a brain-healthy diet and increase exercise. and as a specialist in cognitive disorders and brain health, much of my career has been spent researching about how the brain changes as we age and what steps we can take to keep it healthy. i am also the medical director of texas alzheimer’s and memory Disorders, a texas health Physicians Group practice in Dallas, and i serve on the board of the alzheimer’s association.

my practice is dedicated to promoting the health of my patients through education on how to improve their brain health through food choices — a nutrient-dense diet is a big part of the prescription for my patients.

Brain-healthy food Choices and Exercise

i advocate for maintaining an ideal body weight by making brain-healthy food choices with a simple plan: choose fresh ingredients; avoid simple sugars; consume lots of whole foods (nothing processed); and avoid fast food. these steps are nothing new — but it can be challenging at first to adopt this new approach to a brain-healthy diet.

Like the heart, the brain also needs the right balance of nutrients — including protein and sugar — to function well. a brain-healthy diet is most effective when combined with physical and mental activity and social interaction.

regular exercise throughout all stages of life is healthy, and it’s never too late to start. the brain benefits are immediate. begin by adding 30 minutes of exercises three times a week. be sure to consult with your doctor about how to safely increase your exercise.

healthy diet, healthy you

sure, it takes more effort to eat healthy. but a poor diet, eaten over many years, increases our risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes and even alzheimer’s disease.

research shows that a healthy diet can diminish these risks and enhance our longevity. but we need to know what to eat, how much to eat, and why it’s important that we make these decisions now.

Diet and nutrition are two of the first treatments i discuss with patients who have been diagnosed with alzheimer’s disease. and to their family members without memory loss, i offer the same advice.

all of the healthy-eating recommendations i make are based on vitamins and minerals that support our minds and bodies in countless ways.

Brain healthy diet

n Dark leafy greens— every day

n cold water fish for protein and omega 3 source — two or more times a week — sardines, anchovies and atlantic salmon

n nuts — walnuts, almonds and peanuts

n Legumes — three to four times a week

n vitamin e and c rich foods — almonds, kale, pumpkin seeds parsley, papaya

n healthy fats, olive oil two tablespoons a day, no butter.

n turmeric — as often as possible

n stay hydrated

as a treat add a bit of dark chocolate for a sweet indulgence and to up your antioxidants.

food as Ultimate Protector, B Vitamins for added Brain health

think of food as the ultimate protector and as your medicine. choose foods that serve your individual needs and improve your brain health and overall health as you age.

think of b vitamins as brain food. our bodies use b vitamins to keep the nerves and the brain healthy, when b levels start to decline around age 55, mental performance may suffer.

n For a good source of vitamin b12 eat turkey, chicken, and seafood (clams, mussels and mackerel)

n to boost your b6 levels, choose potatoes, bananas, prunes, greens and pinto and kidney beans

n Look for vitamin e in your food sources (wheat germ, olive oil, nuts and seeds).

with the growing knowledge around food choices, we now can make good decisions and balance our scales to live the longest, healthiest lives possible.

Texas Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders is part of Texas Health Physicians Group. Physicians employed by Texas Health Physicians Group practice independently and are not employees of the hospital or Texas Health Resources. For more information, all 214-345-4449 or visit TexasAlzheimersandMemoryDisorders.com

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in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, chocolate cured many illnesses and also provided passion. it remained affordable only to those of considerable means. charles Dickens, in A Tale of Two Cities describes chocolate drinking as a luxury of the idle upper class. about 1727, an englishman and pub owner named nicholas sanders first mixed milk and sugar with cacao powder, creating a thicker version of hot chocolate. as it grew more and more popular, doctors proclaimed the drink healthy for both children and adults.

the first chocolate mill in the united states, established in 1765 in Dorchester, massachusetts, and purchased in 1780 by Dr. James baker. he named the business walter baker and company and the mill is still in business today producing baker’s chocolate (the founder’s name, not chocolate just for baking). hershey chocolate company marketed the first chocolate bar in Pennsylvania in 1894, and most of us know how the story goes on.

of all the foods around the world, chocolate remains the most widely recognized. it is so much a part of our daily lives. though now affordable to everyone, this confection continues to represent something magically enduring when coupled with special occasions and romance.

one historical account of a true love story associated with chocolate is of a prince and a commoner. on a chilly winter day in 1760, Prince Ditrichstein of austria, vacationing in vienna, decided to visit a newly opened chocolate shop. he seated himself at a table. babette Daldauf, the daughter of an impoverished knight, waited on him. she took his order and served him a cup of the new drink called “hot chocolate.” the Prince so enjoyed the drink and the warmth and conviviality of the shop, he returned day after day, not only to savor hot chocolate, but also to see babette. the lovely waitress enchanted him. Putting his social station aside, he wooed babette. they fell madly in love and soon married. the Prince made public statements that he married the prettiest lady in vienna.

as a wedding gift and a testament of his love for babette, his La belle chocolatiere, Prince Ditrichstein engaged a swiss artist, Jean Liotard, to paint his beloved in the simple costume she wore in the chocolate shop when they first met. the original portrait hangs in the Dresden museum where it has been since 1761. the likeness of “La belle chocolatiere” graces the labels of many baker’s products used in kitchens all over the world today.

the next time a morsel of chocolate is placed on your tongue and the velvety sweetness excites taste buds as it melts and trickles down the throat, allow yourself that mystical special feeling. remember love stories from all over the world such as the one of babette, La belle chocolatiere, who became a Princess.

a SWeet rOMaNceBy Virginiae Blackmon

the human love of chocolate seems to exist since the beginning of time. Did a cacao tree grow in the Garden of eden? surely God and all of heaven enjoyed chocolate before sharing with mere mortals. how and when man first discovered cacao in the wild remains a mystery. the small evergreen tree is native to the lower eastern slope of the andes in south america.

the beans come from a tree whose botanical name is theobroma cacao, which translates “food of the gods.” aztecs considered cacao to be man’s inheritance from Quetzalcoatl, god of the air. the ancient aztecs and mayans made a very special drink they called chocolatl. natives of mexico, south america and the west indies enjoyed the beans of the cacao tree for food long before columbus tested a new route to india. the spaniard cortes was the first to bring the seeds back to europe in 1519. explorers introduced chocolate to the mediterranean region, and from there it spread to europe. kings and other royalty made the drink fashionable. the subtle richness appealed to the more sophisticated palates of those who could afford it. chocolatl was made by boiling crushed cacao beans mixed with maize in water for about an hour, remove the beans and mix the liquor with vanilla, sugar, cinnamon and chile peppers. the mixture, then whipped into froth, was served hot in a golden cup. the drink became a favorite of emperor montezuma.

the cacao beans, so precious in the early sixteenth century, were not only used for making drinks, but also for currency.


Barbara eden Still loves Being the Genie By Mike McGee

Betty lynn keeping Mayberry alive By Nick Thomas

“i have the real bottle,” announced barbara eden, 84, about the unique prop that served as the home for her supernatural character “Jeannie” from the 1960s television show I Dream Of Jeannie.

the iconic actress revealed another fact about the decanter during her visit with enthusiastic fans at the Dallas comic con Fan Days event. “[it was] a Jim beam bottle,” she stated. “it was a christmas bottle for Jim beam, and most of those in-the-know go find them and have them painted...”

eden also shared how she won the most famous role of her career. “i had been reading about it in Variety…” she began. “they were testing actresses for the part and they were all very tall brunettes.

“and they were all like, miss Greece, miss israel, miss italy, you know — all these beauty

contest winners. and i said, ‘okay, not for me,’” she remembered. still, eden’s agent sent her a script to read and she met with producer sidney sheldon over an iced tea.

“….and that’s how i got it.”

in addition, the actress revealed some sentimental thoughts on Larry hagman (tony nelson), who hailed from the Ft. worth area. “i miss Larry,” she said of her costar who later gained fame on Dallas as J.r. ewing.

“he was wonderful. For me in particular his timing was so good and so wonderful,” she asserted. the actress worked with hagman throughout her career — a connection which included a role on Dallas.

“at the end of his life we did Love Letters together — completely different characters — and he just fell right into it,” she remarked upon their theatrical pairing. “he was a delight to work with.”

at one point an audience member wondered if

there would ever be a remake of Jeannie. eden mentioned that she might enjoy being a part of a rebooted series. “i would. i would like to play her grandmother,” said eden, drawing laughter from the crowd. Part of what made Jeannie a popular character was her personality; “she really loved life and she loved people,” the actress explained.

along with her Jeannie work (including two television movie sequels), eden did extensive uso service in the 1980s with bob hope. she also appeared in the t.v. series Burke’s Law and had roles in such films as The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao and Ride The Wild Surf. the actress mentioned the films Harper Valley P.T.A. and The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm as some of her favorite roles.

“i think i had an angel on my shoulder,” eden said as she looked back on the positive experiences in her career.

“i loved being a genie,” eden exclaimed. “i still do — look out!”

it’s just after noon on the third Friday of the month, and 89-year-old betty Lynn is preparing to take her seat behind a small brown table in the main room of the andy Griffith museum in mount airy,

nc. visitors are already beginning to flood into the 2,500-square-feet building to meet the actress best known to ‘60s tv fans as barney Fife’s girlfriend, thelma Lou, from “The Andy Griffith Show” set in the fictional town of mayberry.

“over 500 people come through,” says betty of a typical day greeting fans, which she does about once a month. they come from all over the world to meet a former cast member of the popular show and to see the large collection of andy Griffith memorabilia, assembled by Griffith’s life-long friend emmett Forrest (see

www.andygriffithmuseum.com).

in 2007, after being twice robbed in her Los angeles home, Lynn left hollywood for the quiet, secure life in mount airy, which was also andy Griffith’s hometown. “i’d been coming here for the mayberry Days festival for ages, so it seemed like the perfect place to settle,” she said. “everyone has been so kind since i moved here. it didn’t take long for me to feel like a local rather than a visitor.”

“the andy Griffith show” ran for eight seasons, throughout most of the 1960s. it won six emmys, including five for Don knotts. “andy was fun and a bit of a tease off camera, while Don was sweet but very quiet and nothing like his barney Fife character. but that just illustrates what a good actor he was.”

Lynn also appeared in some 20 films and over 40 other tv shows, including many westerns.

“my first film, ‘Sitting Pretty,’ and then later ‘Cheaper by the Dozen,’ were with clifton webb, a sweet man with a good sense of humor,” she recalled. “i also did two films with bette Davis who got everyone to call me boo, after one of my characters, so it wouldn’t be confusing when they called ‘betty on the set!’

as she does on each of her visits to the museum, betty braces for a long afternoon as enthusiastic fans are already forming the meet-and-greet line. “it’s a little tiring by the end of the day, but it’s the least i can do since people may stand for hours to take a picture, get an autograph and a hug,” she says. “there’s a lot of love coming my way.”

Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn University at Montgomery, Ala., and has written features, columns, and interviews for over 600 magazines and newspapers.

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WiNter SNOOzeBy Dianne Hackett

mmmmm. a warm bed; being nestled in safe and cozy while the cold, blustery weather is locked outside. what a blessing is the feeling of waking refreshed and relaxed and renewed from a good night’s rest. and how illusive are these wonderful feelings for so many folks these days — and for so many reasons.

sleep is critical to the proper functioning of the mind and body, and thus the spirit. without proper rest, we do know that we feel irritable, emotionally more sensitive, less alert, and just less mentally functional. Physically, sleep is necessary in order to allow for many functions of the body to occur. our immune systems are at their peak while deeply asleep. our waste processing systems in the liver, kidneys and blood are also at peak activity during deep sleep. while we are asleep, our body’s repair mechanisms at the deepest cellular level are busy fixing mistakes and repairing cell and thus tissue damage — even to the Dna within the cells. neurotransmitters are being balanced along with hormones and other chemical processes. in fact, it’s amazing to realize just how busy our bodies are during sleep. and, just how much energy is required for us to sleep properly.

the answer to a good night’s sleep is often quite complex. sometimes we have to start with good sleep hygiene. this might mean disciplining yourself to going to bed not only at the same time each night, but also not so late into the night that you interfere with cyclical activities of the body. activities leading up to sleep time need to encourage sleep rather than the opposite. this means turning off the tv about an hour before sleep time in order to decrease sympathetic nervous system activity of the brain which is the “go” side of the brain. that would include computer time and electronic game time as well.

many herbs can help the process of sleep. some bitter, detoxifying herbs are helpful in that they aid the body’s attempts at housekeeping which can further promote restful sleep since the body isn’t working so hard to clean up. some herbs for this kind of help would include: Dandelion (Taraxacum officinalis) leaf or root, nettle leaf (Urtica dioica ), yellow Dock root (Rumex crispus), red root(Ceanothus americanus), and yarrow (Achillea millefolium). other herbs help us reduce gas and that full, stuffy feeling from having eaten too much or rich food, too late. these herbs include cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum), Ginger ( Zingiber officinalis), Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare), or Peppermint (Mentha piperita). Finally, there are herbs that can help us relax and sleep more deeply when taken during the evening and just before bed. these would include such herbs as chamomile (Matricaria chamomile) (try mixing chamomile with Peppermint and/or rose petals for a delicious, aromatic tea that looks pretty as well); Lavender (Lavendula spp.), Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis), scullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora), Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata), and hops (Humulus lupulus). and for muscle or other body aches and pains, try relaxing, antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory herbs such as white willow (Salix spp.), Ginger root (Zingiber officinalis), or meadowsweet (Fillipendula ulmaria).

many herbs interact with some medications so checking with your pharmacist or doctor, or better still, a qualified herbalist, can help you avoid herb/drug train wrecks. many times a single med isn’t the culprit, but the combination of meds that you might be taking can be the problem. you might have to be a tad persistent in getting help with this one, but it is definitely worth the extra effort when it comes to getting a good night’s rest. so, make yourself a warm, soothing cup of tea; get comfy in your old sweats or flannel jammies; and have sweet dreams this winter.

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Julie Johnson stars as America’s favorite country music sweetheart in Dean Regan’s musical tribute, “A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline,” co-starring Steve Barcus, and presented by Granbury Theatre Company and Mark Bell at the Granbury Opera House Jan. 8–31.

A loving tribute to country music’s most enduring superstar, the musical journey traces the legendary singer’s rise from her hometown in Winchester, Virginia to the Grand Ole Opry, Las Vegas and Carnegie Hall. Patsy Cline defined the term “crossover hit” by dominating country, blues, pop and gospel charts simultaneously in the 1950s and early ‘60s.

Featuring 21 of Patsy’s greatest hits, the musical tribute includes Walkin’ After Midnight, Sweet Dreams, I Fall to Pieces, Crazy, She’s Got You, Seven Lonely Days and the title song, A Closer Walk with Thee.

Tickets are priced from $25-$40, and are available by calling 817-579-0952 or may be purchased online at www.GranburyTheatreCompany.org. Show performances will be Friday and Saturday nights at 7pm, with matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2pm.

Take A “Closer Walk With Patsy Cline”

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BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTINGU.S. Department of the Treasury

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is a great place to learn about U.S. currency. You and your grandkids can see where billions of dollars are printed from an enclosed walkway, suspended above the production floor. You can watch an informative film, and walk through two floors of interactive exhibits and displays showcasing currency history and the intricate art of currency manufacturing. Here’s a fun fact: half of the nation’s currency order is produced in Fort Worth!

Where: Bureau of Engraving and Printing Western Currency Facility Tour and Visitor Center 9000 Blue Mound Road, Fort Worth When: Tuesday through Friday 8:30am to 5:30pm, beginning Jan 5 Self-guided tours are available from 8:30am to 4:30pmCost: Admission is FREE Phone: 817.231.4000Website: www.moneyfactory.com

FORT WORTH CHILDREN’S MUSEUMThe Fort Worth Museum of Science and History

The Children’s Museum is geared for ages birth to 8 – and all who care for them. This wonderful museum encourage opportunities for children to learn through play. Inside the Children’s Museum is a healthy kids clinic, an infant/toddler developmental space and more. In the natural science area a Galapagos turtle, is placed in a large dome so that your ones can see it from all angles plus there are reptiles and amphibians. The museum also features more fun play in their indoor block-building site.

Where: The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History 1600 Gendy St., Fort WorthWhen: Permanent ExhibitCost: Adult $21 | Junior (2-12) $16 | Senior (65+) $18Phone: 817. 255.9300Website: www.fwmuseum.org

Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo

The legendary Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo is a 23-day extravaganza at the Will Rogers Memorial Center. It presents a unique atmosphere rich in tradition and history. In addition to the livestock shows and professional rodeo thrills, the whole family will enjoy interactive kid-friendly exhibits, a unique “Moo-seum Experience” nearly four acres of fun shopping, live music, an exciting carnival, great food and much more!

Where: Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo 3400 Burnett–Tandy Dr., Fort WorthWhen: January 15 – February 6Cost: General Admission Ticket — Adults $10 | Children (6–16) $5 | Children (5 & Under) FREEPhone: 817-877-2400Website: www.fwssr.com for more specific rodeo ticket information

CR SMITH MUSEUMCoast To Coast In 48 Hours

Take a trip back in time with your grandkids and experience what it was like to go on Coast to Coast journey in 48 hours! This exhibit, set in 1929, will travel from Grand Central Terminal in Glendale, California to New York’s Penn Station and set the stage for the revolution of transcontinental transportation. Guests will journey through the different stops and stations, scaled models of trains and aircraft used and view period posters and photographs.

Where: CR Smith Museum 4601 Texas HWY 360 at FAA Rd., Fort WorthWhen: Through May 7, 2016Cost: Advanced Tickets: Adult $7 | Children $4 | Seniors $4Phone: 817-967-1560Website: www.crsmithmuseum.org for more information

FORT WORTH AVIATION MUSEUM

The Fort Worth Aviation Museum tells the story of the aviation heritage and accomplishments in North Texas since 1911. Share your love of airplanes while you stroll the museums collection of 24 war birds from 1943 to the present and a US Navy Blue Angel F/A-18 Hornet in the outdoor area. The museum’s indoor display includes the B-36 Peacemaker, a T-38 cockpit simulator and computer flight simulators. Friendly guides will assist with personalized tours.

Where: The Fort Worth Aviation Museum 3300 Ross Avenue, Fort WorthHours: Wednesdays — 9am to 4pm; Saturdays — 9am to 5pm; Sundays — 11am to 5pmWhen: Permanent ExhibitCost: Adults $5 | Kids (6 to 16) $1 | Under 6 FREE | Families $10 Active duty military and their families visit FREE Phone: 855.733.8627Website: www.fortworthaviationmuseum.com

Video Game Museum

Calling all video game enthusiasts — Visit the ONLY museum dedicated to the history of the videogame industry. Share your memories with your grandkids of such classics as Asteroids, Centipede, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders and more — Play the timeless game Pong on the worlds largest home pong console in a giant 15-foot TV replica from the 1970’s. Your eyes will widen as you experience a hall full of gaming stations. Learn the stories behind the games and see rare artifacts. You may even notice a few game systems you have never seen before!

Where: The National Videogame Museum 8004 N. Dallas Parkway, Frisco (inside the Frisco Discovery Center)When: Permanent ExhibitCost: $12 Adult | ages 13–65 | $10 Children 12 and under, military, educators and seniors. Valid ID required for military, educators and seniors ticket.Phone: 972.668.8400Website: www.nvmusa.com

GRAND TIMESActivities To Enjoy With Your GrandKids

By Heidi Frankel

GRAND TIMESCooking With Your GrandKids

the new year is here and one of my goals is to eat more vegetables. we all should, and hopefully our example will influence our kiddos and grandkids.

how we prepare our vegetables can reduce how healthy they are for us. the minute a vegetable is picked it starts losing its vitamins. and then depending on how we cook them they could lose some or most of their healthy qualities. Frozen vegetables can sometimes be better than fresh. Frozen vegetables are usually processed within 18 hours of being picked, allowing them to retain their nutritional value. but fresh is always best if they are truly fresh and have not been lying around for a week.

the more water used to cook a vegetable, such as boiling, the more of the “good” nutrients will be washed away. try grilling, sautéing or broiling in an oven for best results to keep them the healthiest for your family.

Purchase fresh asparagus (or broccoli) from your local grocer. I like the medium sized kind, about the width of a pencil. Once home, set your broiler to low. Remove the band that holds the veggies together.

Wash asparagus in cold water then remove the bottom 25% of the stalk. You can do this one of two ways—By grabbing the bottom of the stalk with both hands and bending the stalk till it snaps, which is my preferred method, or by taking a sharp knife and cutting off the bottom half of the stalk.

Next, line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and fan the asparagus in a neat row on the pan. Take each half of the lemon and squeeze the juice onto the asparagus.

Drizzle olive oil over the asparagus. Season as desired with the fresh cracked pepper and sea salt. Broil asparagus for 7-10 minutes to reach preferred doneness. When done sprinkle with lemon zest and serve.

Lemon (or Lime) Kissed Broiled Asparagus spears

ingredients:1 pound asparagus, fresh1 lemon, fresh1 tablespoon lemon zest¼ cup olive oilAs needed—cracked pepperAs needed—sea salt

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My Heritage BookWritten by: Deanna Bufo Novakage: 5 years and upMy Heritage Book is truly a one-of-a-kind keepsake that the whole family will enjoy reading together. It is a personalized children’s book that takes families on a wonderful journey into their past while exploring their own special origins. Children can find out who they are and where they come from. It is a special book to bond with your grandkids. See more at: www.myheritagebook.com.

Edible ScienceWritten by: Jodi Wheeler-Toppin age: 8-12 yearsGrab a beaker, pick up your whisk, and get ready to cook up some solid science with your grandkids. Using food as your tools (or ingredients!) curious kids become spicy scientists that measure, weigh, combine, and craft their way through the kitchen. Discover dozens of thoroughly tested, fun, edible and educational experiments, like purple cookies (yum) where you test pH indicators or mix up salad dressing and learn about emulsifiers. Edible Science is sprinkled with helpful photos, diagrams, scientific facts and more. The best news is, when you and your grandkids are done with your mad-science cooking; you can grab a spoon and eat all that you have learned!

Monkeys Up™ages: 6 to adult Players: 1-6Monkeys Up™ will have you going bananas! Players compete to get the best score by flipping, switching, and stealing monkeys. Each monkey has a value hidden under its feet that is only revealed when flipped. Victory will come to the player who switches, steals, and flips the best. This is a great game to enhance memory and strategy.

angelina Ballerinaa Dance of Friendshipage 3-5 yearsAngelina is excited when her friend Anya comes to stay with her from another country. But when Anya begins to get all of the attention Angelina feels a little unhappy and resentful. Will Angelina overcome her feelings of jealousy and save her friendship? This is a great story to help your grandkids learn about friendship and life lessons. Smithsonian Sticker Creations:

UNDEr the SEaage: 6 and upEngage young readers with an innovative, hands-on approach to learning. You and your grandkids will embark on a fun underwater adventure to learn about life beneath the waves. Each book presents kid-friendly facts and lets your grandkids explore the amazing diversity of the sea with more than 175 reusable stickers and 5 oversized deluxe stickers, creating their own underwater scene by placing stickers in the removable framed ocean scene. The beautifully illustrated activity book gives young ocean explorers a creative opportunity to learn about all types of incredible sea creatures!

GRAND TIMESReading With Your GrandKids

By Heidi Frankel

as a special treat here are a few games your grandkids will enjoy with yOu!

The weather outside is getting colder; make a cuppa hot chocolate and spend time with your grandkids. Find out about a Yeti, what’s that? Learn of Buzz Aldrin’s vision of the planet Mars and all about our fabulous 50 states, then

cuddle up and teach your grandkids how to crochet a Star Wars character.

Crazy Legs Board Gameages: 8 to adultCRAZY LEGS gets players up and moving. Each space on the game board represents a new physical challenge for you, your grandkids and the whole family to jump, twist, shake and exercise their way to victory! What a great way to get your exercise in a fun way with your family.

JaNuaryfORt WORth: Stage West Studio — Sexy laundryMichele Riml’s romantic comedy comes to Stage West fresh from a smashing run at WaterTower. Henry and Alice, married for 25-years, endeavor to spice up their stale marriage with a romantic weekend in a swanky hotel and a lot of help from a sexy title in the “Dummies” how-to series.

When: Dec. 31, 2015 – Jan. 30, 2016 Where: Stage West 821 W Vickery Blvd., Fort WorthTime: Thursday 7:30pm, Fri-Sat 8pm, Sunday 3pmCost: $35 Fri-Sat; Seniors 65+ $29; $31 Thurs and SunPhone: 817.784.9378

gRanBURy: ghosts and legends toursThe renowned Ghosts and Legends tour will walk you through the Historic Square where you will be told about the famous and infamous characters of Granbury’s past….and maybe the present? Stories about the Lady in Red, The Faceless Girl, John Wilkes Booth, outlaw Jesse James and many others. The Granbury Ghosts and Legends Tour was started April 23, 2010 by mother-daughter team Coletta Henderson and Brandy Herr. They combined their interest in history with their love of the supernatural to form an interesting and fun experience for the residents and visitors of Granbury, Texas.

When: Every Friday and Saturday Where: Historic Square – Meet in front of the Nutt House Hotel on Bridge Street, Granbury Time: 7pm and 9:15pm Cost: $10 per person, $7 for children 12 and under. Phone: Reservations, please call 817.559.0849

fORt WORth: “fOCUs: Joyce Pensato”Since the early 1970s, Joyce Pensato has utilized some of the most iconic American cartoons and comic book characters — such as Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat, and Kyle and Stan from South Park — as starting points for her drawings and paintings. Pensato transforms these characters into portraits that vacillate between menacing and amusing, fretful and enthusiastic.

When: Through January 31Where: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 3200 Darnell Street, Fort WorthPhone: 817.738.9215Web: www.themodern.org

aRlingtOn: arlington Museum of artThis exhibition will feature work by 60 artists including Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Motherwell. Modern art has brought a fresh and unconventional approach to the creative community, expressing the loves, hates, ideas, beliefs, interests, passions, strengths, and weaknesses of a generation emerging in the mid-Twentieth Century. This exhibit will explore traditional mediums of art, outside the box, and how the art world embraced the work that represents a movement that changed the face of fine art in America.

When: Through February 21 Where: Arlington Museum of Art. 201 W. Main St., Arlington Phone: 817.275.4600 Web: www.arlingtonmuseum.org

aRlingtOn: dallas Cowboys vs Washington RedskinsWhen: January 3 Where: One AT&T Way, AT&T Stadium Arlington Time: Noon Phone: 877.632.2697 Web: www.dallascowboys.com

gRanBURy: Music, Massage and Merlot d’Vine Wine of the square. When: January 8 & 29 Where: On the Square Time: 6:30pm – 11pm Phone: 817.573.7200 Web: www.dvinewineusa.com/ locations/texas/granbury

fORt WORth: Cowboys of Color RodeoThis rodeo on Martin Luther King Day highlights the diversity and culture that exists in rodeo and the Western way of life. This rodeo features the Pony Express Relay Races that have become one of the most talked about specialty events in Stock Show history. You have to see it believe it!

When: January 18Where: Will Rogers Memorial Center Fort WorthTime: 2pm Phone: 817/877-2420Web: www.fwssr.com

fORt WORth: a night at the Oscars, Presented by fort Worth symphony OrchestraLights! Camera! Action! It’s all about music from the silver screen when conductor/host Damon Gupton leads the FWSO in a program fit for the red carpet. Enjoy musical selections from The Godfather, Captain Blood, The Magnificent Seven, Pink Panther and much more. Hooray for Hollywood!

When: January 22 – January 24 Where: Bass Performance Hall 4th and Calhoun Streets Fort Worth Phone 817.212.4325 Web: www.basshall.com

fORt WORth: Elvis lives. Presented by Performing arts fort WorthElvis Lives is an unforgettable multi-media and live musical journey across Elvis’ life. His iconic style, embraced by many of today’s artists, continues to intrigue audiences of all generations. The show features finalists from Elvis Presley Enterprises’ worldwide Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest, as well as a tribute to Ann-Margret. Audiences “Can’t Help Falling In Love” with this phenomenal theatrical concert experience

When: January 26 Where: Bass Performance Hall. 4th and Calhoun Streets, Fort Worth

Time: 7:30pm Phone: 817.212.4325

ClEBURnE: “Beauty and the Beast” MusicalThis classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed to his former self. But if the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity. The “Tale as old as time” that the whole family will love.

When: January 29 – February 27Where: Plaza Theatre Company 1111 S. Main Street, CleburneTime: Thursdays–Saturdays at 7:30pm with a matinee on SaturdaysCost: Adults — $15; Seniors (65+) — $14; Students (HS and College) — $14; Children (12 and under) — $13Phone: 817.202.0600Web: www.plaza-theatre.com

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Craig Young Kare Shultz 2212 Mountainview Drive 2712 River Foret Ct. Hurst, TX 76054 Bedford TX 76021 817-788-4652 817-975-2865

New HorizoN SiNgleS First United Methodist ChUrCh • Fort Worth, tX

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Crystal BallJanuary 23, 2016 • 6:30 pm – 10:30pm

Diamond Oaks Country Club — Grand Ballroom 5821 Diamond Oaks Drive North — Haltom City, TX 76117

Dinner and Dancing • Music by “Now & Then”

After 5 Attire $40 per person

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FeBruaryaRlingtOn: Mavericks are bold, unique, visionary difference-makers whose ideas need to be heardThe University of Texas at Arlington Maverick Speakers Series provides a forum for today’s brightest minds to examine the people, ideas, actions, and solutions that impact the world around us.

Featuring some of the leading voices of our time, the series is more than just speeches on current events or timely issues. These are thought-provoking conversations led by renowned innovators who make change happen. Because such important discussions need a variety of perspectives, the Maverick Speakers Series invites opinions from all sides, with topics as diverse as the people who present them. And because unrestricted access to such exchanges encourages insight and enrichment beyond the UT Arlington campus, all lectures are free and open to everyone.

Now in its eighth season, the Maverick Speakers Series has attracted tens of thousands of people throughout North Texas and featured Ken Burns, Emmitt Smith, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Thomas Friedman, Magic Johnson, Cokie Roberts, Bill Nye, Soledad O’Brien, Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta, Henry Cisneros, Michio Kaku, Bob Costas, and many others.

aRlingtOn: Mavericks speaker series: donna BrazileDonna Brazile: Politics and BeyondPolitical strategist and commentator Donna Brazile is also an adjunct professor, author, syndicated columnist, and vice chair of voter registration and participation at the Democratic National Committee. Her work as campaign manager for Al Gore made her the first African-American woman to manage a presidential campaign. Her many accolades include the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s highest award for political achievement.

When: February 2 : Ron Paul February 25: Donna Brazile March 31: Jane Goodall Where: The University of Texas at Arlington – Texas Hall 701 S. Nedderman, ArlingtonPrice: Free — Tickets available at www.utatickets.com. Time: 7:30pm Audience Q&A to follow lecture.

gRaPEVinE: sweetheart Wine trailRomance the day away with your someone special along the Sweetheart Wine Trail in Grapevine. Featuring three tastings and food samples at each participating Grapevine winery tasting room and a large souvenir wine glass, this is a unique and festive way to celebrate Cupid’s arrow.

When: February 13–14Where: Historic Downtown Grapevine Phone: 800.457.6338

fORt WORth: arlo guthrie: the alice’s Restaurant 50th anniversary tourLegendary folk music icon Arlo Guthrie has embarked on an 18-month tour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the event that inspired his seminal song, Alice’s Restaurant Massacree. A musical monologue running more than 18 minutes, Alice’s Restaurant has become a Thanksgiving holiday anthem to families across the globe. Guthrie will perform his most prominent work in its entirety each night on the tour, as well as selections from every full-length studio album he’s released since his debut, Alice’s Restaurant (1967). Each show is also curated with a special multi-media presentation featuring previously unseen images from the Guthrie archives. More than 75,000 photos have recently been digitized, and selections will be projected along with Peter Star’s claymation film depicting Arlo’s “Motorcycle Song.”

When: February 18Where: Bass Hall. 525 Commerce Street Fort WorthTime: 7:30pm Phone: 817.212.4325 Web: www.basshall.com

gRaPEVinE: divine Consign Children’s Consignment showDivine Consign, the Dallas Metroplex’s favorite

twice-yearly consignment sale specializing in the highest quality gently worn children’s, junior’s and maternity clothing, toys, books, games, DVDs, baby equipment (strollers and more) and baby/children’s furniture. Early shopping on Saturday is available to consignors, volunteers and Registering First Time Moms.

When: February 21 - February 22Where: Venue: Grapevine Convention Center 1209 S. Main St., Grapevine Cost: Free Time: Sunday, February 21st — 11am–4pm 6pm–9 pm; 50% off select items Monday, February 22nd — 8am–12pm; 75% off select items

gRaPEVinE: aKs gem showAKS Gem Shows has been managing and promoting gem, jewelry, and bead shows for over 35 years. Our shows are wholesale shows that are open to the public, featuring fine jewelry, fashion jewelry, beads, beading supplies, findings, gold, silver, charms, designer cabochons, gemstones, pearls, and more.

When: February 26 – 28 Where: Grapevine Convention Center 1209 S. Main St., GrapevineTime: Fri–Sat — 10am–6pm; Sun — 10am–4pmCost: $5.00Time: Friday, February 26 — 10am–6pm; Saturday, February 27 — 10am–6pm; Sunday, February 28 — 10am–4pm

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Dr. Sue’s chocolates Dr. Sue Williams

520 S. Main #200 | Grapevine 76051 817-527-4424

yelibelly chocolates Yeli Marshall

2364 E. Northwest Parkway | Southlake 76092 817-789-5563

cupcake loco 900 S Main | Keller 76248

(682) 593-0630

the Black rooster Bakery TCU/West Cliff

2430 Forest Park Blvd | Fort Worth 76110 (817) 924-1600

Oak St. Pie & candy co. 110 N Oak St | Roanoke 76262

(817) 490-0994

le chat Noir — cupcake Bordello and Bakery 1208 W Magnolia Ave | Fort Worth 76104

(817) 393-1733

Swiss Pastry Shop Arlington Heights

3936 W Vickery Blvd | Fort Worth 76107 (817) 732-5661

leah’s Sweet treatsArlington Heights

4910 Camp Bowie Blvd | Fort Worth 76107(817) 731-5223

Stir crazy Baked Goods106 E Daggett Ave | Fort Worth 76104

(682) 710-2253

Dude, Sweet chocolateArlington Heights

2925 Crockett St | Fort Worth 76107 (817) 945-2234

Valentine Lovers Delight Specialties for that Special Someone

tHree NeW tHiNGS FOr tHe NeW yearBy Durhl Caussey

get up and move!

before you go to sleep and before you get up, do some low energy exercise while still in bed. takes only about five minutes. then as you go through your day, when sitting, take a few minutes and repeat. start with your toes and wiggle and crunch. wag your feet from side to side. Do some leg raises and hold a few seconds. raise your arms above your head and swing them over your head back and forth, stretching your fingers. turn your neck slowly from side to side as you do this. conclude with 5-10 sit-ups. sit only when necessary; a body in motion is good for the body. however, this should not hinder a short afternoon nap.

learn to say “no!”

most of my life has been spent trying to please others. sometimes at my own expense. it is a shame i had to get old before discovering it is okay to say “no.” my answer now is predicated on what is best for me. that includes my friends, kids and spouse. even my grandchildren. and when i do say “no” i have no regrets, without even a tiny teaspoon of guilt. i have to protect myself, even if it means disappointing someone i care deeply about. i’m not going to agree to something that compromises my values, requires undue physical or financial burden, or eats up my precious time unnecessarily. only agree to do what you feel you can do comfortably, without undue loss. ask yourself before you say “yes,” is this good for me, leaving me stress free? sometimes telling someone “no” is best for both of us. Don’t let pity drip into your free will.

find a quiet place or time for quiet.

below my house is an isolated, quiet, small lake. sometimes around sunup or near darkness i journey down to the lake called emerald. i sit on a bench near the water listening to it ripple against the shore. no one is ever around. as the wind walks through the tall cottonwoods nearby, restless birds make friendly noises. beavers splash as they prepare their meal. my soul becomes quiet. my mouth is shut, and mind at rest. i dream the dreams of a child. i pray to my heavenly Father. heart becomes open to suggestions helping to enrich my being. all is forgiven, mistakes are erased, and pardon is granted. i invite you to find such a place. your emerald Lake can be in your bedroom, office, car, on an afternoon walk. Fill your bucket, excite your mind, and open your heart.

Durhl Caussey is a syndicated columnist who writes for papers across America. He may be reached at this publication or [email protected].

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4IMPORTANT CONSUMER INFORMATION: WE TALK offer valid on 400 minute plan and applies to new GreatCall customers only. Offer valid until plan is changed or cancelled. Jitterbug is owned by GreatCall, Inc. Your invoices will come from GreatCall. All rate plans and services require the purchase of a Jitterbug phone and a one-time set up fee of $35. Coverage and service is not available everywhere. Other charges and restrictions may apply. Screen images simulated. There are no additional fees to call GreatCall’s U.S. Based Customer Service. However, for calls to an Operator in which a service is completed, minutes will be deducted from your monthly balance equal to the length of the call and any call connected by the Operator, plus an additional 5 minutes. Monthly minutes carry over and are available for 60 days. If you exceed the minute balance on your account, you will be billed at 35¢ for each minute used over the balance. Monthly rate plans do not include government taxes or assessment surcharges. Prices and fees subject to change. We will refund the full price of the GreatCall phone and the activation fee (or set-up fee) if it is returned within 30 days of purchase in like-new condition. We will also refund your first monthly service charge if you have less than 30 minutes of usage. If you have more than 30 minutes of usage, a per minute charge of 35 cents will be deducted from your refund for each minute over 30 minutes. You will be charged a $10 restocking fee. The shipping charges are not refundable. Jitterbug and GreatCall are registered trademarks of GreatCall, Inc. Samsung is a registered trademark of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ©2015 Samsung Electronics America, LLC. ©2015 GreatCall, Inc. ©2015 firstSTREET for Boomers and Beyond, Inc.

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