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n our cover story on former Luminate member Dustin DeLong, he tells his story of changing directions in life based on what’s healthy for him internally and externally. It’s a story of faith, courage, difficulty and joy, directly related to his well-being. In This issue of IN, we’ve highlighted and addressed the topics of health, fitness and nutrition in various ways to bring awareness and education. The thing about health and nutrition is it directly reflects our internal health. When our cars are a mess, our house isn’t in order, we aren’t exercising and or fast food seems to be the only viable option for nourishment, suddenly we lose stability — because external reality reflects the health of the internal state. I find this to be true in my life. I often neglect to prioritize my health and wellbeing to find myself unstable, wading in the repercussions of my choices. Although I haven’t encountered a major health problem, I can see how this pattern could have negative effects in the long run. It’s my goal to prioritize my physical health this year. Setting goals to work out, sticking to a healthy eating plan or taking care of health problems can be defeating, but it’s vital to our quality of life, and completely worth the trials. “Anything that’s worth it in life requires you to go through a season of pain or struggle, because if it’s worth it, I think it turns out that way,” Dustin says reflecting on his life and health changes. Although he enjoys competing in marathons and triathlons, he admits he has to keep himself in check to avoid obsessing over his calorie intake and exercise regimen — a struggle rooted in insecurity from adolescence. We have a fitness column on p. 100 that offers tips on creating and maintaining attainable health goals. The ability to choose proactive alternatives to unhealthiness and disease is a blessing if its own. Some people, like 5-year-old Sydney McGlothlin, however, don’t even get a chance to be proactive about their health. She was born with Hypoplastic Right Heart Syndrome, a life threatening congenital heart disease requiring three open heart surgeries subsequent to birth — and she fought through all of them. That’s a bigger medical trial than most ever face, and a defeat that inspires me. Now healthy and full of energy despite being born

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I really like the new face of IN, the cover draws you in to pick it up and read it. The inside of the magazine is just as pleasing to the eyes as the outside. One reason I really enjoy IN is because it show cases families and people who achieve greatness with out expecting to be in the spotlight. Kelly Culpepper, Tyler resident I really like the articles in IN magazine. I am especially fond of the travel section. I've learned of a few places I'd really like to explore.   Sonia Semone, Tyler resident

Lea Rittenhouse, editor of IN Magazine. with half a heart, what helped preserve Sydney’s life was awareness and proactive care before her birth. About 600,000 Americans die from heart disease every year, accounting for one out of every four U.S. deaths. Knowing the warning signs and symptoms of heart disease at any age is the key to preventing death, but most people don’t know the signs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. February is National Heart Awareness month, so we decided to do our part and shed light on the subject through Sydney’s story, and through the opening of the new Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital, the first of its kind in East Texas. This issue of IN Magazine is a call to action. Choose what’s healthy for you now. Choose to educate and inform yourself and others, because tomorrow is unpredictable. Whether it be proactive action against heart disease, limiting or becoming serious about your exercise plan, making a drastic life change or battling through a preexisting health problem—start now. Dustin did it, I’m doing it and sweet Sydney did it. Life is full of change and unexpected news, so take advantage of today.

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Smart Scale

This Wi-Fi bathroom fixture functions as a personal trainer, weight loss monitor & BMI indicator.

By NICK BUSKE

What would you say if your spouse gifted you with a bathroom scale for your birthday? Many of your off-the-cuff replies might be inappropriate for this family magazine! A few months ago, when I turned 37, I tore into my lovingly wrapped gift, only to lay eyes on such an item. My reply? "Oh, Honey, you shouldn't have. I love it!" But the gift was not your typical bathroom scale; it was the Fitbit Aria Wi-fi Smart Scale. While its $129 price tag might send some jogging for the hills, I'm here to tell you it may well be the motivational tool you need to lose that "Holiday 10," or get into better overall shape. After I signed up for a free account at fitbit.com, I connected the Aria to my home wi-fi network. The process was simple and straightforward, available as either a software download to my computer, Mac or PC, or as a web-based installation from my computer or smartphone. No thick, dark-rimmed eyeglasses necessary for this setup. Immediately, my relationship with the Aria started off on the wrong foot. The device outed me as two pounds heavier than my previous, 10-year-old bathroom scale. Indeed, ignorance is bliss. It took a while for me to put that insult into the fact category. Next zinger: BMI. As part of the initial setup at fitbit.com, I divulged my height. Pair that value with my weight and I'm considered overweight at a BMI of 26.5. Sure, these kinds of calculations are crude, but I don't need a smart scale to tell me that my trimmer years are a thing of the past. The question is: what â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if anything â&#x20AC;&#x201D; am I going to do about it, and how? Ask any doctor or fitness guru how to lose weight, and they will likely give you the spiel about diet and exercise. Then there are a few lone wolves, like Gary Taubes, who will tell you that the age-old mantra of "calories in, calories out" is just old-

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"The Aria Wi-fi Smart Scale can record your body fat percentage as well as your weight, from which BMI can be gleaned."

WIFI-CAPABILITIES

All of the measurements are wirelessly sent to your fitbit.com account where you can see those numbers fluctuating, add exercise notes and assign an "Aha!" to the half pound you lost last week when you began walking every day instead of every other day.

school mumbo jumbo. But given the chance to recognize another tactic to help shed pounds, I bet all of them would agree that real-time, data-driven feedback is essential. This is the Fitbit Aria's biggest strength, and it's what transforms the novelty of a networked scale into the utility of a personal trainer. Remember those two pounds Aria outed me carrying as concealed weight? The day before my birthday, I thought I weighed 184. That's what my scale had been telling me for years, but with 186 as the new baseline courtesy of Aria, I was determined to get back to 184. The real 184. Just to get even. Five weeks later, I'm down to 184.7. Of course, I've got a ways to go until I get to my self-prescribed goal of 175. Sure, my wife might encourage me along the way, but that would mean she'd have to acknowledge I'm overweight. Shhh, she still thinks I can run a quarter mile in under a minute. Maybe my friends and family would throw in an encouraging word here and there, too. But, the truth is, I'd rather have the data than a warm fuzzy. I'd rather know that my body fat fell from 22.8 percent to 21.9 percent instead of trying to gauge how many inches I can pinch from week to week. That's right, Aria can measure body fat, too. As long as your feet are dry, they will make a good connection with the scale, at which point Aria will send a harmless electric signal through one of your feet. That pulse will be received at the scale through your other foot, having traversed your whole body along the way. Since fat and lean muscle conduct electric current at different rates, the scale is able to interpret the returning signal accordingly and calculate body fat. What does this mean to you? Well, if you're trying to lose weight and exercise is your modus operandi, then you might actually be building lean muscle at the same time as shedding body fat. In this case, your incremental body fat measurements would possibly tell a different, more positive story than your incremental body weight measurements. So, the Aria Wi-fi Smart Scale can record your body fat percentage as well as your weight, from which BMI can be gleaned. That's the smart part. But, what good is all of that data inside your scale? Now for the wi-fi part. All of those measurements are wirelessly sent to your fitbit.com account where you can see those numbers fluctuating, add exercise notes and assign an "Aha!" to the half pound you lost last week when you began walking every day instead of every other day. Of course there's an iPhone and Android app that allows you to micromanage those data points, too. The smart scale recognizes up to eight different family members and tracks everyone's numbers individually along their own path to enlightened health monitoring. So, if you plan to get one for your spouse as a gift, there's your back door. "Look what I got US, Honey! A bathroom scale." For more technology reviews www.hightechdownlow.com or follow Nick on Twitter @hightechdownlow.

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"If

you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” This quote by revered 19th

century artist Vincent Van Gogh explains how Derrick White, professional artist, works through self-doubt every artist suffers from time-to-time. Derrick, who is also an art professor at Tyler Junior College, knows self-doubt is something that plagues all artists, frequently and repeatedly, but is a hurdle that is not insurmountable. This is a concept he instills in his students. “If I can teach students to persevere through that idea of selfdoubt, then I’ve done my job as an art professor,” he says. “I think that’s what stops most people. But every single artist I’ve ever studied; every artist I’ve ever met, talked to, read about, or know, has that (self-doubt).” The nagging feeling of self-doubt, as Derrick describes it, harassed him not only as an artist but also at the thought of becoming a teacher. His journey to becoming an art professor is something he certainly did not expect. Derrick’s journey in the art world started at an early age. He was born in Wheeler, a small town in the eastern part of the Panhandle. He grew up in the nearby town of Shamrock, where he spent the first 10 years of his life. At the age of 10, his family moved to DeSoto, a Dallas suburb, where he graduated high school.

While Derrick has been a professional artist for more than 20 years, he knew, even as a child, his life would be in art. “Like most artists, I’ve been doing art my whole life,” he says. “Children instinctively and intuitively draw, and those drawings (in my case), came to mean something.” Derrick’s formal calling into the art world came in college, while attending Cedar Valley College in Lancaster. It was his art appreciation professor, Randy Broadnax, who inspired him to pursue a degree in art. Derrick transferred to the University of North Texas, where he received his bachelor’s of fine arts degree in 1992. It was in his undergraduate career where he sincerely contemplated a career as an artist, after working through fears in his head. “I think a lot of people have to overcome this misconception that people have: ‘If you become an artist, you’re going to die alone, you’re going to starve and have a lowly existence,’ that romanticized Van Gogh’s life,” he says. “I had an epiphany, I guess. We live in a visual world. Whether I make my living painting as a career, or doing graphic design or photography, you can make it as an artist.” After receiving his bachelors’ degree, he applied for graduate school solely at the University of North Texas, from which he received his master’s of fine arts degree in 1997. “I knew I was in the right place. I enjoyed the faculty, and I enjoyed the town. I wanted to stay in the area,” he says. After graduate school, he didn’t plan on teaching. He got married, moved back to DeSoto and acquired work in a distribution warehouse as warehouse manager for the DeSoto school district. “At first, the idea of teaching terrified me,” he says. “I did not want to stand in front of a room full of people and talk. I loved the idea of being alone in my studio and creating art.” A couple years later, the thought of teaching didn’t sound as daunting. The warehouse lent to extreme cold in winter and blistering heat in summer, so standing in front of a room talking about his passion seemed like a decent option. He left his warehouse job and began work for the Arlington Museum of Art and teaching part-time at Tarrant County Community College. He also taught part-time at Eastfield College in Mesquite. “I was paying my part-timer dues, driving from one end of the Metroplex to the other,” he says. During this time, he worked at the museum five days a week until noon, then drove to TCCC to teach afternoon classes, and then traveled to Mesquite to

“I try to stress all the time that the only qualification you need to be an artist, is a pulse. If you’re alive, you can communicate or express your human existence to the rest of us..." teach night classes at Eastfield. East Texas became a part of the equation in 2000, when he applied for a job at Tyler Junior College. He interviewed for an open position at TJC and was a finalist for the job. Someone from his past beat him out, however. In 1992, he participated in an exhibition in Corsicana, where he came in third place. At the exhibition, he met a woman who came in second. The “little British lady,” as he put it, was a woman named Barbara Holland, who also beat him out for the job at TJC. “I was one of the finalists, so I was called down for the last set of interviews, and I noticed that Barbara Holland was also a finalist,” he says. “They ended up hiring her that year instead of me. I was driving back after I got the news that I didn’t get the job, and I was wondering, ‘Who is this little British lady who keeps beating me at everything?’” The following year, however, TJC had a substantial growth in its art department, and they had a full-time position available. Derrick, again became a finalist and was hired. As for working with the “little British lady,” Derrick says he feels very fortunate and blessed to have had the opportunity to work with her as long as he did. He considers her an inspiration. She retired about two years ago. Derrick spends his time between teaching and working on his own art, which he sells and displays in exhibitions in the area. He says he draws inspiration from life and basic human | Cont. on page 16

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Cont. from page 15 | existence. He draws inspiration from the people in his life, such as his students, colleagues and family, which includes his wife, Alicia, of 14 years, and their two kids, Jerri, 14, and Joshua, 11. Derrick’s art, which can be described as busy and chaotic, yet optimistic, centers around the shared commonality of what it is to live a human existence, he says. “You can put something absurd in your work, and people get it, because they understand how crazy life can be sometimes,” he says. “A lot of times, some of the work can come off as sarcastic, but it’s really kind of a celebration of absurdity, more than cynicism. You have to take a humorous approach when it comes to what it means to be alive, because it can beat you down if you don’t.” Derrick’s artwork, which involves mostly paintings, but also sculptures and mixed media, share the same theme of optimism through the absurdity of life. His pieces depict scenes of beautiful chaos that makes one wonder what goes on inside the head of an artist capable of such busy pieces. “When I have an exhibition, I see all these (pieces or art) spaced out, and I’m very thankful all these paintings, all these ideas, all those pieces, aren’t in my mind anymore,” he says. “I think if I had all this stuff in my head still, I’d be crazy by now. It’s nice to get it out of my system and kind of record it.” Derrick has an easy explanation for why he enjoys what he does: “What I love most about creating art is sharing my human existence with somebody else; the attempt at communicating or having a connection with the viewer,” he says. “Someone responding to something I did.” Derrick says he is fascinated with moving paint around, the spontaneity and ‘happy accidents’ that take place when painting or sculpting. He says accidents are part of the process, which is why he feels satisfied when paint runs or splatters; he says he almost feels empowered at working on a piece without a finished product in mind. This creates what he calls the “surprise of creating.” Derrick says he believes his career as an artist has shaped his career as a professor, and vice versa. “Being a professor makes me a better artist. I get to go (to work), and I love this stuff; I’m passionate about it. I like to share that love and passion with others,” he says. “I get to talk about the art fundamentals, and try to help students find their own creative voice, anybody gets to do anything, and I get to talk and discuss art on a daily ba- and it’s art.” sis. Then I get to bring that energy into the Derrick's art serves as a metastudio in the evenings and create art myself.” phor for his life and career: A The definition of art is something that often random stroke here, a random sparks debate, since every person has an opin- stroke there, spontaneity, amion of what they think is art. Derrick’s defini- biguity and a bit of chaos and tion of art is an interesting one. absurdity. “It has to be made by a human being. That But as he says, and his art artist can incorporate nature in the artwork reflects, “you have to take a huthey make, but it has to have some human morous approach when it comes connection to the human condition,” he says. to what it means to be alive, “So I try to stress all the time that the only because it can beat you down if qualification you need to be an artist is a you don’t.” pulse. If you’re alive, you can communicate or express your human existence to the rest Derrick White's paintings and mixed of us. Whether it’s with words, or sounds, or media art, titled from the top: To bless or to blame, And so it Goes Shoot All grunts, or movements, or paintings or poems; the Blue Jays You Want, all available at Canvashead.net.

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MIRANDA DAY P By Lea Rittenhouse | Photos Courtesy of Matthew Hogan

racticing logic by day and creativity by night, local accountant Miranda Day deals with tax returns during work hours, but spends her free time writing and recording music. “On a normal day I may come home and veg-out for a little bit, but eventually I pick up my guitar and play something,” says Miranda, a graduate student at The University of Texas at Tyler. “When it’s not your day job you have to find time to do it.” Miranda began performing her acoustic solo act about eight years ago, playing music with a folk, indie flavor. In 2010 she became inspired after her grandmother’s death to record her first full-length album. “After she passed away it just hit me — ‘I need to do this now. It’s not going to just happen … I’ve got to do an album, because life is so short,’” she says while remembering her thought process after losing her No. 1 fan. Her grandmother requested a musical performance each time the two spent time together. Previous to the sudden inspiration for the LP, Miranda released an EP in 2007, which continued to enable her to play shows around East Texas.

BROKEN AND BRIGHT, PREVIEW RELEASED in 2012 The album is titled “Broken and Bright” and has been released for preview online while she finishes crafting a deluxe edition to be released on iTunes. Along with friend Matthew Hogan, Miranda engineered, mixed, mastered and recorded the tracks herself. “I had to narrow down my bag of songs that felt like they went together,” she says. “I knew exactly what I wanted it to feel like and sound like.” Her favorite track on the album is

"Wake Me Up," which tells the story of two particular circumstances where her words weren’t honored. “This song is really close to my heart because I’ve had two experiences in my life where people didn’t respect my boundaries and to them no didn’t mean no,” she says. “Everything I write is something that happened to me or something that happened to someone close to me.” Her Christian faith and difficult upbringing influence her songwriting process. Miranda grew up in a musical family — her father being a guitar player and her mother a lover of music. When she was younger, she’s loved being on stage and performing, but piano lessons and playing flute in the school band didn’t quite quench her performance thirst. “I was like ‘nothing so far has felt right. The music feels right but the way I’m going about it hasn’t felt right,’” she says. At about age 13, she asked her mom to buy her a guitar and her dad taught her how to play. A year later she met a group of guys who played in a Christian metal band. “I would go to all their shows and hang out with them and I was like, ‘this feels right. This is where I belong,” she says. Miranda says music is like therapy for her and if she didn’t play music, she would go crazy. “Sometimes you write something and you’re like ‘oh that’s awful. I’m so embarrassed. I’m never going to show that to anybody.’ But you still have to let it out," she says. “Music is such a freeing thing… you let it out and then maybe you can help somebody else." Her dream is to play music for a living, however, it’s also important to her that she remains in control of her sound and image. “When I was young, I wanted to be a famous rock star and wanted to get signed and sell out arenas and as I’ve gotten older I’m like, that might not be as great as I thought it was,” she says. “I’m not saying I would be opposed to a label as long as it didn’t become more about money and image.” After years of playing and recording music, her advice to aspiring musicians is “don’t wait.” “…Don’t wait for someone to notice. Get out there and find shows to play. Go out there and get your music out there, because you might sit and wait your whole life for someone to find you.”

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Build anyway, released june 2012. The rocketboys

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After losing three original members in 2010, the remaining members of The Rocketboys, an Austin-based indie-melodic rock band, had to decide to continue or call it quits. “We had been working really hard, but it got to the point where a couple of the guys changed their mind about wanting to make this their main thing,” says Justin Wiseman, keyboardist and original member. “Starting a band is a lot like starting a business from scratch. You never know how long you’re going to be in the investing in it type stage. We were definitely burning the candle from both ends.” Despite a brief hiatus following the loss of Dan Wheeler, Mitch Holt and Alex Bhore, the existing trio decided to make a full-force comeback, recording their second full-length album, “Build Anyway,” released last June. Brandon Kinder, singer and guitarist, says the

record was largely what motivated their perseverance through the transition. “We knew we were at least going to write this album no matter what,” he says. The sophomore release chronicles the emotional journey the band — Josh Campbell, Brandon Kinder and Wiseman — faced following the departure of half the band through honest, sometimes apologetic lyrics and a refreshing spin on their already favored style. The arrangements includes perfect vocal harmonies within the borders of epic, endemic, pop melodies. “If you listen to the lyrics, it’s pretty stark, but it was just the whole situation of everybody leaving the band and that story from our perspective,” Brandon says while reflecting on the inspiration

of the album. “It’s definitely about the guys that left … not real bitterness but just a really frustrating time, you know. We worked really hard and built a lot,” Justin says. “The guys that left are still some of my best friends, so sometimes it’s kind of weird to sing these sometimes kind of hateful songs.” Previously, the band collaboratively composed songs, but the slimming of members made way for a songwriting reformation that turned out for the better — visions became easier to fine-tune with fewer musicians creating. “(Before), everyone kind of had their say. There wasn’t one clear leader making all those decisions,” Josh says. “We had to transition away from that because we didn’t really have the people to all get in the room at the same time and just hammer it out until we were all happy, so that was a big hurdle to overcome.” The album title was inspired by a quote by Kent Keith but made famous by Mother Teresa: “What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway.” And that’s exactly what they did. Last year The Rocketboys played at South By Southwest and co-headlined the Invisible Children tour with BEARCAT, as well as other tour dates. The band also added two new members: Josh Rodgers on drums and Kyle Samuel on Guitar. Although the musical act is still unsigned, they’ve been hard at work since the band’s formation in 2005, having released three EPs and two live DVDs, in addition to their first LP, “20,000 Ghosts,” released in 2009. The original members casually started the sextet in Abilene while attending Abilene Christian University. The school held a student band showcase event during homecoming week, and Brandon organized a group of musicians and the set list to perform at the event. In need of a name for the informal musical act, he chose Homer Hiccolm and The Rocketboys, inspired by his favorite movie October Sky. “We played more and more and started thinking we wanted to pursue it more as we got further along in our college career,” Josh says. In January 2009 they simplified their name to The Rocketboys, and later that year they relocated to Austin. “As you can imagine with a name like Homer Hiccolm and The Rocketboys, there’s always people spelling it wrong or mispronouncing it,” Brandon says describing the revisions to their name accompanying their first full-length album release. Brandon and Justin say the band’s long-term goal is to make music their sustainable career.

“There’s something about music that can be so rejuvenating to a person. Music is one thing that everybody can agree on,” Brandon says. “You can change a lot of things through music; you can affect people through music.” Plans for this year are already in the works with a confirmed performance at South By Southwest, tours and another LP in the mix. To learn more about The Rocketboys or see upcoming tour dates, go to www. therocketboys.com or find them on Facebook.

Staff Favorite 2012 Music releases:

Precious Remedies against Satan's devices, The Welcome Wagon, Released in 2012

Babel, Mumford and Sons released in 2012

A minor Bird, Sucre released in 2012

RED, Taylor Swift released in 2012

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"I do try to make sure that the music I choose reflects not only my taste, but a variety of tastes.” Story & Review by Jordan Roqmore | Photos Courtesy of Portraits by Bryan

hen the East Texas Symphony Orchestra (ETSO) began searching for a music director two years ago, the response was overwhelming. More than 200 applications flooded the offices of the search committee, composed mostly of board members and musicians. After several layers of interviews and eliminations, the five remaining applicants were asked to come and conduct a concert for the 2011-2012 season. “They were here for a week leading up to their concert, and we had them out in the community as much as possible,” says Kathy Housby, patron services director. “They had dinner with donors, and we tried to do some public meet-and-greets to see how they interacted with Tyler and the community. As 22

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PREPARING THE SEASON The 2013-2014 ETSO season will be the first that Lee will be in charge of designing. He says his goal is to meet everybody’s taste at some point in the season next year.

a part of that process, we asked for feedback from the audience.” After the final concert of the season on April 28, the search committee reviewed all the reactions and responses from the community, board members and musicians. They chose Richard Lee, a Winnipeg, Canada, resident. “There were a lot of good candidates,” Housby says. “It was a difficult decision, but Richard really rose to the top. He was actually the first to conduct in that season, but even at the end of the process, people still remembered him and how good he was.” Having been hired on immediately as music director, Lee will be conducting four of the five concerts this year for ETSO. He says the job is a good fit all around. “The musicians and I seemed to work well together,” Lee says. “The board and administration and I get along very well, too. I feel very comfortable in Texas, and I love the food and the friendly locals.” Along with his obligations in East Texas, Lee is also the music director for the Korean Canadian Symphony Orchestra in Toronto, the resident conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the conductor of the University of Manitoba Symphony Orchestra. During the orchestra work season, September through May, Lee regularly travels between Winnipeg, Toronto and Tyler. “Conductors are used to having to travel to work,” Lee says. “If you think about the relatively few professional and semi-professional orchestras in North America, even large cities like NYC will have only a handful. The bottom line is, if you want to work, you have to travel.” Lee began his musical experience at the age of five with the piano and moved on to the violin two years later. At 17, he passed piano and violin exams with honors at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. “After several long years of coerced practicing, I eventually began to enjoy playing,” Lee says. “After a brief and ill-advised stint as a physics major, I came to my senses and pursued a degree in music performance at the University of Toronto as both a violinist and violist.” Lee went on to teach middle school music for five years. During that time, he received his first encounters with conducting. “The first time I conducted, it happened completely by accident,” Lee says. “The second time I was asked to conduct, it was because the conductor quit at the last minute and they were desperate. However, it wasn’t until I went back to school in 2000 to get my master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting that I really became serious about it.” Along with professionally conducting orchestras across the continent, Lee also

considers himself an avid sports fan, news junkie and connoisseur of fine ales, whiskies and cigars. “I don’t have a lot of downtime during the work season,” Lee says. “The rehearsals for an approaching concert are intense, and preparing for them is very time-consuming. The goal of rehearsal isn’t necessarily perfection; it’s about bringing a convincing musical experience to the audience.” During a performance, both the conductor and musicians will have the same piece of music in front of them, but the conductor is in charge of leading the overall sound of the orchestra. “I don’t know that people always understand how much difference a conductor can make to a performance,” Housby says. “It’s why people that love classical music might have three or four different recordings of the same piece. Yes,

the orchestras are going to be a little bit different, but each conductor brings his own sound or style to that performance.” ETSO’s next concert, on January 12, will be “Shall We Dance,” a work by Martin Gould written to feature a tap dancer as the soloist performing with the orchestra. Although this will be the only concert this season with a guest conductor, Lee considers it a positive take on modern orchestral performances. “In general, I think collaborations are great,” Lee says. “The more we can incorporate other art forms and disciplines from around the area, the better. Things such as the dancers performing with ETSO this year make this a very inclusive and eclectic season.” The 2013-2014 ETSO season will be the first Lee will be in charge of designing. He says his goal is to meet everybody’s taste at some point in the season next year.

“I can’t give any real details about the upcoming season, but I will say that I do try to make sure that the music I choose reflects not only my taste, but a variety of tastes,” Lee says. “You may not be familiar with all the music we perform, but it all expresses something important. If you come to a show open to the music, it can move you and really take you somewhere.” “There’s long been a sort of intimidation factor when you talk about orchestras and coming to a concert,” Housby says. “People say, ‘Do I have to put on my tuxedo?’” No, come in whatever and come as you are. Come and experience the orchestra once and we think you’ll come back again.” To find out details for upcoming performances or to purchase tickets starting at $10, visit ETSO.org.

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A Beautiful Collaboration with ETSO and Cirque de la Symphonie

entle, airy music floats from the orchestra in the background as a graceful woman climbs two long ropes of white silk. Twenty feet in the air, she commences to flip, bend and balance her small form in a series of nimble, gravity-defying movements. This aerial ballet interweaves with the music to tell a magnificent story, commanding the audience of nearly 2,000 to simply watch and listen. The East Texas Symphony Orchestra collaborated with six Cirque de la Symphonie performers to put on a show at the Cowan Center on Nov. 17. ETSO’s next performance of Shall We Dance on Jan.13 will also be a collaboration featuring tap dancer Max Pollak. “Over 15 years ago, I was always looking for a way to present circus in a fine arts setting,” says Bill Allen, executive director, producer and co-founder of

Cirque de la Symphonie. “I got to spend some time with the Moscow circus, and I was so impressed with their dedication to the art form. I had been doing things here and there with circus and music, but people kept encouraging me to formalize it and offer it to orchestras. Eventually, that‘s what we did.” The performance incorporates the solo and duo talents of the cirque performers along with classical music from over 60 orchestra members. Richard Lee conducted the ETSO through pieces written by Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Strauss and many more while everything from aerial skills to electric juggling took place on the front of the stage. “The joy was that we got to fuse these two art forms together,” says ETSO Executive Director Nancy Wrenn. “Cirque just feels like it was made for classical music. I was so pleased with the outcome of the performance.” During the fast-paced music of Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” cirque artist Alexander Fedortchev does an aerial rope routine that includes an intentional fall from nearly 20 feet in the air. Just as the music reaches its finale, Fedortchev slides horizontally down with only his hands on the rope, slowing himself just as his

body comes to rest on the floor.“The strength and flexibility of the acrobats was just incredible,” says ETSO patron Lee Hensarling. “It was fabulous with the music and the choreography. I’m thrilled that they came to Tyler.” Other cirque acts during the performance include contortion/dance, aerial hoop, spinning frame and cube, hula hoops, juggling, and an aerial duo. ETSO patron Shauna Emery has a daughter in the orchestra who also studies violin at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. “Normally when you see an orchestra, there is no extra visual element,” Emery says. “I just loved seeing the performers blend with the music. It was beautiful.” The various groups that make up Cirque de la Symphonie will be performing with over 60 orchestras this year, including 10 shows for an Australian tour. Allen says he would love to have a troupe perform in Tyler again in the future. “In 2005, we incorporated the first only cirque company in the world that works exclusively with orchestras,” Allen says. “Our cirque artists are the best in the world at what they do. For them, there is no better experience than performing for a sold out house with a powerful orchestra booming behind them.”

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Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defect in the United States, affecting about 40,000 births per year. Stories by Lea Rittenhouse | Photos by Rose Bailey

Like most kindergartners, 5-year-old Sydney Mcglothlin loves dressing up and playing “princess” when she’s not at school or dance class — but she’s been through something that sets her apart from others her age — she’s already overcome three open-heart surgeries. Her mother, Lindsay Mcglothlin, was working as an ultrasound tech at Good Shepherd Medical Center when she learned she was pregnant with Sydney in 2007. In fact, she was the one who confirmed her pregnancy since she had immediate access to the equipment. Each time she had a check up, Lindsay would perform an ultrasound on herself to take a picture for her pregnancy journal, but a few months in, she noticed something wrong with Sydney’s heart. “I had looked at her heart before but she was just so little I couldn’t really tell,” she says. “I immediately thought ‘something is wrong. It doesn’t look right. I ignored it for a little while but went back and saw it again. There was this gut feeling in me that was so strong — I knew something was wrong.” She showed the ultrasound pictures to her radiologist and her family, but they told her she was just worrying herself. “I was even trying to talk myself out of it, but you know, a couple days would go by and I’d look again,” she says while adding she decided to make an appointment with her doctor. “I just prayed the whole time, please let him take me seriously, because if he was the last person that said ‘don’t worry,’ I probably would have tried to shove it

off or not think about it, and who knows what would have happened.” This time, though, Lindsay’s doctor trusted her intuition and sent her and her husband, Joseph, to a perinatologist in Dallas for an ultrasound. “He put the transducer down on me, and he put color on the heart actually, which shows the blood flow ... one side of her heart didn’t have blood flow going through it and the other side did,” she describes. “I was right, but then I was so mad because I didn’t want to be right.” Because of the structural malfunctions of Sydney’s heart, the perinatologist sent Lindsay and Joseph to speak with cardiologist the same day, who performed an echocardiogram on the baby. “They did the echo and sat us down in the room and said her condition… ‘she’s going to require three open-heart surgeries and they’re in stages,’” she recites. “It was a complete nightmare. The whole time it was like floating.” The three-surgery remedy is called the Fontan Pathway. The following days after the news, Lindsay says she was in shock and grieved the thought of having a healthy baby. She remembers entertaining thoughts like “I didn’t want to find it. Why did I have to find it?” Sydney was diagnosed with Hypoplastic Right Heart Syndrome, a life-threatening congenital heart disease where the child’s right side of the heart doesn’t function. Sydney is in a group of patients that have what is collectively known as a single ventricle. The heart has four chambers to it: the right and left atrium at the top, and

the right and left ventricle at the bottom, says Dr. Tim Thomas, Sydney’s pediatric cardiologist out of Dallas. “When a child only has one ventricle, they need to use that one ventricle to pump blood out to their body — that requires a series of operations to get blood to their lungs effectively,” he says. About 15 percent of children born with Sydney’s condition don’t live past year one, even in the best heart centers in the United States, he added. After finding Sydney’s heart problem, the McGlothlin’s went to Dallas one to two times a month for a check up. Since she would give birth there, the doctor’s decided Lindsay would remain in Dallas after 37 weeks, so she could get to the hospital quickly. But Sydney changed the plans. Her heart rate remained at 175 compared to the normal rate in the 130s after a check up at about 34 weeks, so they sent Lindsay to Dallas to be on monitors until Sydney was born. “Those two and a half weeks I was at the hospital I was getting ultrasounds three times a week,” Lindsay says. “The heart rate never went down. It just kept climbing, and then she started having arrhythmia sort of things.” Since the heart rate remained high, the doctors decided it was time for Sydney to be removed from the womb at 36 weeks. “I don’t really know to | Cont. On page 30

Left: Sydney Mcglothlin and her Beads of Courage. Through the Beads of Courage program, children coping with serious illness tell their medical story using colorful beads as symbols that commemorate milestones such as treatments and surgeries they persevere during treatment. Right: Five-year-old Sydney Mcglothlin.

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"I have always been amazed at how well she has recovered,"”Lindsay says. "That can't be a kid with half a heart, but she is."” Cont. from page 29 | this day what happened because it was all kind of a blur,” Lindsay says. “She went into the NICU and the doctors were giving her this medication to keep one of the blood vessels open because it actually closes after birth … it’s a hormone that the mom produces to keep it open but when you deliver, the hormone diminishes and the little artery closes.” Without the medicine the essential artery would close, leaving Sydney with no circulation, leading to death. She had her first open heart surgery at five-days-old — the Norwood Procedure — to replace the malfunctioning artery with a synthetic tube. She recovered well with only minor complications. “The first one was crazy and very emotional, because she’s a little baby. She doesn’t know anything different. She sitting there with tubes everything and she’s smiling,” Lindsay says. “She went home and grew and was perfectly healthy.” She had her second operation, the Bidirectional Glenn, at six-monthsold. The superior vena cava was taken off the heart and plugged it into her pulmonary arteries that go to the lungs. Her third surgery took place in July 2011, but this one was different because Sydney was old enough to be aware of the operation. The doctors took the bottom vein off and plugged it into her pulmonary artery to go to her lung, so she doesn’t have anything going to the right side of her hear. “She knows she had surgery. She thinks they unzipped it down and fixed it up and zipped back up, and she was all better,” Lindsay says adding Sydney called the medical tubes “noodles.” She recovered seamlessly, completing the surgery series. “I have always been amazed at how well she has recovered,” Lindsey says. “That can’t be a kid with half a heart, but she is.” Dr. Thomas says if children with Sydney’s condition live past 5-years-old, they generally have a stable period for five to 10 years. Since completing her surgeries, Sydney visits the cardiologist every six months for a check-up. “The doctor sometimes tells me she’s good now, but later because of all scar tissue she could develop some kind of rhythm problems with her heart and they’d have to put a pacemaker in,” Lindsay says. “Since there’s nothing else they can do for her, they would have to do a heart transplant if she starts going into heart failure, because the left side of her heart is the only thing that’s working right now.” Although the doctor’s say Sydney won’t be able to participate in competitive sports because of her condition, Lindsay says she is going to let Sydney attempt what she wants. “If struggles at it then okay, we’ll just move on,” she says optimistically. For now, though, Sydney is a happy, energetic, caring kindergartner attending Caldwell Elementary, a fine arts elementary school in downtown Tyler. “The coolest thing that I’ve noticed, and not just from Sydney, but all the other heart kiddos too, is they have such a huge heart. She is so caring, it’s amazing,” she says. Last year, Lindsay’s co-worker recommended she apply for Sydney to be a Make-A-Wish recipient, but she didn’t think Top left: Sydney at the Heart Walk in October. Middle: Sydney after her first openheart surgery at five days old. Bottom left: Sydney after her third open-heart surgery in 2011. Top right: Sydney with her Beads of Courage. Bottom right: Sydney, 5, on her Make-A- Wish trip to Disney World last year. 30

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Sydney would qualify. After consulting with Dr. Thomas, though, she learned the Make-A-Wish program isn’t just for children who have a terminal condition. “Their criteria is that the child needs to have a life threatening illness. That doesn’t have to mean we expect the child is going to die, it just means that their condition is such that if the child did die, it wouldn’t really be surprising from a medical stand point,” he says. “Since Sydney is in that group of patients that could have abnormal rhythms really at any moment, she qualifies for MakeA-Wish.” After a long application process, Lindsay learned Sydney had been accepted and was shocked at the news. “We decided Disney World because she loves to dress up and play princess,” Lindsay says. “She got to see the princesses and she got the VIP treatment. That was just an unbelievable trip and she still talks about it even to this day.” Lindsay is a part of a local chapter of Amazing Little Hearts, an organization established to bring awareness to congenital heart disease, fund raise for research and to comfort families affected by the cardiac conditions. Although she believes support from others who have experienced a similar situation is vital to persevering through pediatric heart conditions, she says no one could have prepared her to see Sydney after surgery. “You feel helpless. As a mother you protect. You have to keep her from hurting and you have to keep her from any danger, but as a heart mom — you can’t,” she says while fighting back tears. “And you have to do that three times.” “I want to say that everything will be okay, because that’s only human nature to say that everything will be okay, but it’s not always okay,” Lindsay says. “Every day I was waking up touching her, making sure she was still living, because you just didn’t know. I didn’t know how quickly she could be taken away.” Even though Sydney can play and look seemingly healthy and normal, she’s still different. “It’s a different world,” Lindsay says. “She knows basically what’s going on, but I don’t know how much she grasps it.” “Mom, I have a special heart and the doctor fixed it so it’s all better,” Sydney says. Jan/Feb 2013 | INMagTexas.com

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As first stand-alone cardiovascular hospital in the region, the Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital, began serving patients in December, concluding the two-phase plan established in 2010. Through careful planning and research, the six-story facility resembles a hotel atmosphere, complete with comprehensive cardiac, thoracic and vascular services, 70-plus beds, a stained glass window chapel, gardens and spacious, family-friendly patient rooms. “They’re not going to be feeling like they’re walking into a hospital, they’re going to be feeling like they’re in a four star hotel,” says CEO John McGreevy explaining the research behind the design. “It’s taking away your fear. It’s helping calm you because you’re not going to get that fear of walking into a hospital.” In October 2010, Louis and Peaches Owen made a donation of $18 million to Mother Frances Hospital to help construct the

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first stand-alone heart hospital in East Texas, a gift influenced by her own heart surgery a few years ago. “It’s through the generous gift of the Louis and Peaches Owen family that we’re able to do this,” McGreevy says. “This project came about in such a quick state and we’re able to capitalize on it.” The main advantage to a freestanding cardiovascular heart hospital is the entire medical team is focused on cardiovascular disease, providing quality, specialized care, McGreevy says. The vision for the heart hospital is patient-centered care focused on outcomes and patient satisfaction. McGreevy refers to the hospital as a “medical mall,” providing a clinic, inpatient care, outpatient care and cardiac rehab all in one building. The Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital will utilize the Modified Universal Bed Model, which allows pre and post-oper-

ative cardiac care to be delivered in the same room, including all nursing and technology resources needed. The resources in the patient's room are flexible and adjustable as the patient's healing progresses. This approach has proven to be easier on the patient rather than following the previous model, which involves taking the patient to different areas on campus for their care, according to a release. The spacious rooms and lobbies emphasize family involvement, an obvious priority of the hospital and staff. “The family member can become part of that healing process,” McGreevy says. “A family member being in the room, often times, will speak to a nurse, or speak to a physician or speak to a respiratory therapist when maybe the patient’s too afraid.” About 600,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year, amounting to about one in every four deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Fagg Sanford, chief of cardiology, says the need for cardiac care in East Texas remains great because of lifestyle choices and natural associations. “We have a fairly large Medicare aged population and an aging population that are in need of cardiovascular services,” Sanford says. “It’s no secret that our diets are often less optimal than they should be, our physical activity is lower than it should be, our rates of obesity are higher than they should be and unfortunately, all of those things are a little worse in East Texas than they are in the state as a whole.” The most common cardiovascular diseases in East Texas and the major issues the heart hospital will deal with are: Coronary Artery Disease, Arrhythmias, Valvular Heart Disease and Congestive Heart Failure, Sanford says. Nationally, Coronary Heart Disease is the most common type of heart disease, killing more than 385,000 people annually, according to CDCP. Sanford encourages people to pay attention to recognized risk factors of heart disease and to seek appropriate consultation if there is concern, because early diagnosis and appropriate treatment is critical if possible. “…Those things that are in their power to control, of course, smoking or session of smoking… controlling blood pressure, controlling cholesterol and controlling diabetes,” he says. “If people are concerned

Left: Louis and Peaches Owen and family. Top right: Patient suite for destination patients at the Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital. Middle right:Technologically advanced surgery room. Bottom right: The chapel for recovering patients and and family members.

they should talk to their family physician or their primary provider.” Preventative care, early recognition when it does exist, team medicine and care is the recipe for the best possible outcomes for the patient. “Doing what’s right for the patient, not just what can be done but what should be done,” he says. In addition the to the specialized healthcare, the heart hospital will also provide jobs for the region. Deb Taylor, chief nursing officer says there are several opportunities available. “We’re really excited about bringing in new folks to our team to join the experts that we have on staff already,” she says. “The nurses in the Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital will support the management of patients with cardio, thoracic, vascular and pulmonary disease and all aspects of their care, from helping to diagnose the problem, to treating the problem, to supporting their recovery even after they leave the hospital.” Through the generosity of the Owen family, the specialized cardiac hospital will continue to progress and provide opportunity for East Texas.

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CHANGING

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hen a former band mate was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in fall 2010, Tyler native Dustin DeLong received a health wake up call that would ultimately change the direction of his life. At the time, the Tyler native and Grace Community School graduate played keyboard for Luminate, a signed Christian band based out of Tyler. “In a band, you don’t really have time to think about your health, or think about what you eat. You just kind of don’t get much sleep and you eat really terrible,” he says while recalling the touring lifestyle — playing about 200 shows a year. After Cody Clark, the guitarist for Dustin’s band, was diagnosed with MS, he became increasingly health conscious, eating holistically and gluten free in attempts to remedy his condition. His new consumption patterns limited how his symptoms flared up. Watching Cody become health aware made Dustin realize the importance of health and proper nutrition intake. “All the guys in the band started eating healthy to support Cody, our guitar player, and his diet changes,” he says.

Left: Tyler resident Dustin DeLong. Right: Dustin competing in the cycling portion of the Toyota U.S. Open Olympic Tri on October 7.

Dustin also began running after noticing rapid weight gain following his 21st birthday, an activity which would later become a passion of his, although, he didn’t like the exercise at first. “When I got back home for Thanksgiving from being on tour, I decided to start running, and at first I really hated it,” he says. “For probably almost six to eight months I hated the running, but I was just determined to lose the weight.” By spring of 2011, the chore of running had developed into a passion and Dustin signed up for his first marathon. Training for the race while on the road with the

band was a large commitment, but he managed to continue running while living out of a tour bus. The combination of healthier eating habits influenced by Cody and regular exercise provided Dustin with what he describes as a “more fruitful life.” “It was just kind of mind blowing to see the differences — how much energy I had,” he says with a humble demeanor. Around the holidays in 2011, the rigid touring started to wear on Dustin and he began to reconsider being in the band. After five years, the lack of sleep and extensive | Cont. on page 38

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"I think a lot of people miss out on a lot of life because they talk themselves out of things that they just don't believe they're capable of,” he says. “Anything that’s worth it in life requires you to go through a season of pain or struggle because if it’s worth it I think it turns out that way.”

Cont. from page 37|traveling ultimately contributed to his bittersweet choice to leave Luminate in January 2012. “I’ve always enjoyed music … it’s still such a pleasure for me and something I love to do, but I think the traveling was just starting to wear on me,” he says. “Honestly at the end of the day I just wanted to be home with my family. It just started to become a huge struggle.” Since transitioning out of Luminate, a secondary passion of Dustin’s resurfaced — a passion for missions work, but he 38

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wanted to be intentional about how he approached missions. “It’s one thing I knew I would probably do at some point but I just put it aside because when you’re in a band you don’t have time for anything,” he says. “It’s really in the past year or so that the passion has really come alive.” A last-minute missions trip to Sierra Leone, Africa with Young Life Africa last spring brought perspective to how he wanted to pursue missions. Along with serving at a YL Africa camp, Dustin also

got to visit a medical clinic, shaping and confirming a desire to do medical missions. “Going over there you get this perspective; it’s really eye-opening. It’s definitely culture shock, but it truly was a blessing to go over there and go serve,” he says while describing his trip. “Getting to go there just confirmed what I want to do. I really feel like I’m going to work in pediatrics or OBGYN, somewhere in that area.” Dustin says his new goal drives his daily tasks of being a biology student at Tyler Junior College — in order to pursue medical missions — and his job as a pharmacy tech at East Texas Medical Center. “After leaving the band I had zero hours of school, so I’m at TJC … trying to crack away at pre-med,” he says reflecting on his life changes. “It’s a lot of time but it’s worth it to me.” His passion for running continued to grow after leaving the band, adding relay races, 5k’s and 10k’s to his experience since participating in his first race in 2010. Dustin continued to run with a group called East Texas Striders. A couple members of his running group competed in triathlons, and their talk of the experience peaked Dustin’s interest; so he set out do complete a half ironman triathlon October. “The beginning of 2012, I just set up this goal to do a half iron man, not knowing really what I got myself into,” he says. “I remember telling a couple of guys in the group and they were kind of like, ‘don’t you want to start on something smaller?’” A half ironman is a 1.2-mile swim, 56 miles on a bike and a half marathon, and the ironman is double the distance. He purchased a bike online and began to train. He started to feel confident about the biking and running — but the swimming was a different story. “I got in the water to do 650 meters and I thought I was going to die that day,” he says. “At that point I was scared to death. I was like I shouldn’t be doing this,

or I’m going to have to do a lot of work, and I chose the work.” Two weeks later he competed in sprint length Rose City Tri — one month before the Toyota U.S. Open Olympic Tri — his goal race. Although his results in the sprint tri were less than desirable, Dustin was able to tighten his time before the half iron man triathlon. “Through training and doing the tris, you learn a lot about yourself and what you’re capable of … I think a lot of people miss out on a lot of life because they talk themselves out of things that they just don’t believe they’re capable of,” he says. “Anything that’s worth it in life requires you to go through a season of pain or struggle because if it’s worth it I think it turns out that way.” Although Dustin finds enjoyment in running and competing in triathlons, he says he has to keep his love for health and exercise in check, so it doesn’t become an obsession like it has in the past. “Eight to nine months into me running I started to really focus on my diet and it was pretty much consuming me,” he says. “I had been adding mileage pretty quickly and I got injured. I got what’s called Compartment syndrome in my right shin.” He says the temptation to over-exercise and practice food deprivation stems from insecurities of being overweight when he was younger, but his remedy lies in his love for others — the same passion that fueled his desire to play music and fuels his desire to do missions work. “There’s no freedom in going on a strict diet. When it consumes you, its not really freeing. At that point it just becomes about yourself and you can’t really serve other people or love other people like I feel like we should on this earth,” he says. “The more that I am able to focus on other people and love other people the less of a problem that is for me.” Dustin treasures the five years he was in Luminate and all he got to experience, but he doesn’t regret his choice and says “each day is a new story.” “I do miss the guys a lot. I realize how much we were gone because they’re never home and I’m here now,” he says while recalling life in a touring band. He hasn’t retired his love for music; instead, he continues to play in a worship band for Green Acres in their Crosswalk service. “I’m still getting to really do what I love as far as music goes. Getting to do it and still sleep in my own bed at night,” he explains with a laugh. For now, 23-year-old Dustin continues to chip away at his degree in hopes of helping people. “I just love being able to pour into people. I just want people, honestly through my life, to see Jesus because that’s the only reason I’m alive,” he says. “Just being alive is a mission trip.”

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Gary Gilmore proposed to his wife Mary twice in 56 years. She accepted both times, but under quite different circumstances.

is first proposal came within months after they met as college students living in New York. Their marriage began a life consumed by professional careers, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and most of all, a profound love for each other. His second proposal came this past June as a sudden inspiration, a spark amid the emptiness Alzheimer’s disease left after erasing part of his memory. But the gleam in his eyes still reveals his love for Mary, an Italian nurse who believes God saved her from cancer more than a half century ago “because I was meant to take care of Gary.” Losing routine cognitive functions is a cruel irony for Gary, a Korean War veteran who earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, a master’s degree in counseling and a law degree. He taught math and worked as a high school guidance counselor during his long career. After his retirement, the couple moved to Tyler in 1998, but he continued his passion for learning — taking various classes at Tyler Junior College and designing their new home, Mary says. Then in 2003, Gary realized his memory was slipping and he went to M.D. Anderson Hospital for a full evaluation. “He was very aware of it (memory loss) and he wanted to prevent himself from getting worse,” Mary says. “He was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment.” But his ability to recall events, places and people gradually got worse. She couldn’t let him drive anymore for fear he would get lost. She said his dementia rapidly worsened after he had back surgery in 2010, but it wasn’t until a year ago that his condition Left: Gary and Mary Gilmore. Middle: The Gilmores at their second wedding ceremony.

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was finally diagnosed as being Alzheimer’s. It is here the Gilmore’s story begins to focus more on Mary, who faced day-today challenges in caring for her husband. “He was very … extremely dependent on me,” Mary says. Despite her training as a nurse, the pressure of such a responsibility began to take its toll. Spreading Effect Researchers say the disease affects one in 10 people over the age of 65. It begins in the hippocampus, the part of the brain where memories are born. Two protein fragments called plaques and tangles accumulate and kill brain cells. The disease gradually spreads through the brain — referred to as stages — affecting language, logical thought, emotions, older memories, balance and coordination and finally the part of the brain that regulates the heart and breathing, causing death. The entire progression takes an average of eight to 10 years, and there is no known cure, researchers say. Because people with Alzheimer’s require constant attention, a family caregiver can find their personal time and finances strained. Mary believes there is a reason for everything, even for her husband’s disease. “He’s a blessing to me. I really believe that in my heart because (of Gary’s condition) I know there is a God who helps me through this,” she says. Mary also found help in Tyler from businesses like Inspirations of Tyler and organizations dedicated to assisting those with Alzheimer’s and other mental diseases as well as those who care for them. Alzheimer’s Alliance of Smith County is one of those organizations. For Gary, the Alliance provides Wonderful Wednesday Club — a day where people with Alzheimer’s can participate in various supervised programs while giving their caregivers an opportunity to run errands, shop or just have some time alone. The organization also offers a plethora of resources for caregivers. For Mary, that meant help securing a $1,200 grant to pay for six weeks of respite care, an expense difficult to afford on funds from teacher’s retirement and Social Security. “They (Alzheimer’s Alliance) are there anytime I need something,” Mary says. “They are 100 percent behind the family. They just care about you.” Alzheimer’s Alliance Alzheimer’s Alliance — located at 211 Winchester Drive in Tyler — has roots dating to 1982, when a single support group was created in Tyler to help families struggling with the disease. The group grew into the Northeast Texas Chapter of Alzheimer’s Association (in affiliation with the national Alzheim-

er’s Association) that served Smith and a number of other counties from 1990 to 2002. The local chapter’s governing board chose to disaffiliate with the national association in 2002, but continued serving a 16-county area until limited resources forced the organization to focus its efforts on Smith County beginning in 2009. Executive Director Jana Humphrey began working for the Alzheimer’s Alliance in 2004 and now works with a staff of eight full or part-time employees and about 150 volunteers. The alliance operates as a true nonprofit organization, with funding provided by private families, foundations and the generosity of others, Ms. Humphrey says. She says Alzheimer’s generates some unique challenges for both the person with the disease and those who care for them. “It affects activities of daily life that we all take for granted,” Ms. Humphrey says. “It can be become very difficult for the caregiver, especially because the behavior (of the person with Alzheimer’s) becomes unpredictable.” One of the first things alliance workers can do is help the caregiver create an action plan. The plans should include family, friends, physicians, dentists and anyone else who will have contact with the Alzheimer’s victim, she says. “Caring for the caregiver is our priority. We believe that if we educate and empower caregivers, they will benefit as will the care recipient,” Ms. Humphrey says. In order to maintain that goal, the alliance works to be a major information source for caregivers. “We try to stay on top of all the resources in the community for possible referrals,” she says. “If we don’t have an answer, we try hard to find one.” The alliance provides community workshops focusing on educating caregivers, family members, and in-home care professionals. “We help people develop that “knack” . . . tools that will help them better communicate the needs,” she says. For example, a workshop may focus on how to avoid “incidents” that cause anxiety, stress or fear for the person with Alzheimer’s. “If they (caregiver) know how to divert or avoid that situation . . . that’s better for everyone involved,” she says. The workshops also may involve community education, in-service training for professionals, social work consultations and memory screenings (conducted yearly in November). Its program, Project Livesaver, addresses those at risk of wandering. The alliance also provides caregiver support through counseling, educational resources or support groups because caring for a person with Alzheimer’s can be

very difficult and requires a lot of patience, she says. “We give them permission to make mistakes in order to learn. We need to empower them so they feel good about what they are doing,” Ms. Humphrey says. “Learning also means knowing when to let go of things that used to seem so important.” As for resources, the alliance offers a library, videos and referrals to a variety of businesses that offer products or services they may need such as legal or financial counseling. The alliance also works with other organization (such as the Area Agency on Aging of East Texas) in providing respite care for caregivers. The Alliance offers Wonderful Wednesday’s for four hours of respite care at Shiloh Road Church of Christ. Living with Alzheimer’s Gary and Mary Gilmore take their new life together in strides, in some ways learning about each other all over again. “He can color in a book now. He’s starting to read,” Mary says. “You just grasp onto little achievements now.” He can’t remember his daughter’s name or the name of the family dog, but someone he never seems to forget is the woman he lives with. This past June, Gary offered this proposal to Mary: “Would you marry me?” Mary arranged for their priest to bless the couple on their 56th anniversary. Instead, he performed an entire marriage ceremony during church service. A photograph of Gary’s beaming smile reflected his love. Asked how he met his wife, Gary turned and gazed into Mary’s eyes. “I met you in school,” Gary says. “I saw you and I thought: oooooh-yes, absolutely. You’re the best thing that ever happened to me.” “You’re the best thing that ever happened to me,” Mary replied.

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“I hate shopping. These clothes are so boring. There just isn’t a good selection.” Come on fellas! We know you might not get the same rush from shopping as women do, but it’s not that bad. There’s no reason to mope. As long as you know what to look for, shopping can be a rewarding experience. You never know, you might just enjoy that same shopping trip women love when you find that item of clothing that is just what you wanted. However, if you are like most men I encounter, your opinion of men’s fashion is that it’s a pretty sad place with a few shirts and some slacks. You might be surprised to know how expansive the world of menswear really is. With many styles for every personality and preference, the road to becoming a cleverly clothed man is just a few easy steps away. I’ll be your guide — these are some specific landmarks you’ll want to look for: classic fit, creative texture and personal preference. A leading style statement of all seasons is a great fit. After talking to many fashionable men from all around the world, the most frequent advice I hear is that fit is everything. Knowing the right fit that suits you will instantly add an air of style and a boost of confidence. Some of this season’s popular fitted statement pieces are the ’60s style slim cut suit, the slick double-breasted jacket and well-fitted jeans or trousers. My personal favorite, seen on the streets and the runways, is a double-breasted jacket with a slimfitted trouser and a classic shoe. This sort of outfit has been featured by the likes of Etro, Marc Jacobs, Salvatore Ferragamo, YSL and many more. You can do so much with this sort of outfit. You can go all monochrome for an edgy ensemble appropriate for work, or you can go with a patterned jacket paired with a colored trouser for a day out. Since there are so many ways to mix and match this classic look, I would consider it one of the season’s most versatile outfits. The second mod trend takes just a little bit of courage and a small amount of knowhow — combining textures. How does one go about combining textures without looking confused or overdressed? Easy. Just know the right textures to combine and for what events to combine them. The three most prevalent texture contrasts and combinations are chambray shirts with dark denim jeans, leather jackets with cotton henleys and tweed suits with herringbone additions. The first two options are very casual weekend or night outfits, and the last option is a dressier outfit perfect for work or a classy date. Since tweed and herringbone are a popular winter combination, I’m going to suggest trying it out. The easiest way to work with layering textures is to choose your main suit piece. I’d suggest going with a tweed — since that is the big pattern of this season — in a warm brown or a rust red tone tweed. Once you choose your tweed, try pairing a herringbone skinny tie in a grey tone to cool down the warm colors of the suit or blazer. You

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Apparel

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he definition of creative is as follows; one who displays productive originality. Taylor Thomas fits the description to a T, or better yet, T-shirt, like the ones that she designs and sells on her Live to Love Apparel website. By day she works as a psychotherapist, but during after hours and weekends, she is the owner of her own faith-based clothing company. A Longview native, Taylor graduated from Springhill High School in 2005, and at the ripe old age of 25, it’s clear to see that Ms. Taylor will forge whichever path she chooses and become quite successful at it. Case in point: her clothing company, Live to Love Apparel. She first thought about creating her own designer shirts during her college days at Baylor University. “I was pretty active in going to concerts and shows, and I began to notice an immense amount of negative shirts,” she says. Taylor couldn’t understand why others would want to represent themselves in a way that she thought should be censored. “It weighed heavy on my heart. I felt that I could make a positive impact on our youth, but didn’t know how to go about 58

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it,” She says. Her final year at Baylor, taking on a 17-hour course load so that she could graduate a semester early, she summoned the motivation to make an idea she had thought of, a reality. She bought $75 worth of Hanes v-necks and had them screen-printed with a logo she had created. She christened her company, Live to Love Apparel, after many hours trying to come up with a name that also conveyed a message. “I’ve always been the creative sort, so I had this idea to make every shirt unique, to hand dye them, and so that’s what I did,” Taylor says. She was blessed with a group of friends in the music industry who agreed to be the models for her first designs, and that in turn enabled her to get the word out. “People began to buy my shirts and were receptive to the positive message I was trying to share,” she says. “Here I am, nearly four years later, and I ship to over 40 countries.” She finds enjoyment in spreading a positive message, and the fact that she gets to spread the message all over the world is “really incredible.” “I’ve gotten to meet people online and in life that I wouldn’t have been able to

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meet otherwise, and to hear how Live to Love Apparel has impacted them is such a great gift,” Taylor says. Taylor says she has always had entrepreneurial leanings. “I remember being around 6 or 8 and making very intricate beaded rings, bracelets and necklaces. My sister and I made it a ‘business’ that we called Ash-Tay Jewelry, and we would sell it to our friends,” she describes. Even at a young age she took the business seriously and laughs now at the memory of her and her sister approaching the business so professionally. “I’ve always had an entrepreneurialtype mind set, never thinking something is out of reach, working hard for the things I want to achieve,” she says. Taylor advises that starting a business is not for the weary. “I went from never having a job, to owning and running my own business. It takes passion, drive and a lot of hard work,” she says. Functioning as a one-women show, she also packages and ships out every single order. She promotes, advertises, arranges for studio shots for the website and does myriad other things it takes to keep things running in addition to her full-time job in Tyler. A favorite quote provides insight into Taylor’s work ethic, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” Her favorite Bible verse, and the inspiration that pretty much started everything, conveys this young entrepreneur’s character: Do everything in love 1 Corinthians 16:14. “It’s the basis of how I strive to live my life. I still feel blessed every day when someone chooses to support Live to Love Apparel, and I don’t take a single day for granted,” she says. From Longview to Tyler to making an impact in the world, Taylor wears her accomplishments quite well.

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For Terrific Tresses- Nothing screams goddess like flowing healthy locks, a look that is hard to achieve due to winters’ harsh conditions. L’Oreal Ever Sleek Oil Treatment infuses the hydrating powers of Argan oil from Morocco to help calm and soothe stressed out strands. It also has a delayed release capsule built in to help control frizz for up to 48 hours. For hair more severely damaged (think excessive coloring or hot tool use), Pantene just came out with a new hair moisturizer called Silky moisture Whip. It’s the consistency of a mousse that also acts as a styling product to help hair style in any way. After using these products, a great thing to use is a finishing spray such as Redken’s Quick Tease to help you achieve a messy, flexible hold. For Kissable skin- With so many body lotions available, it can be overwhelming deciding what to choose. I find that I love the thicker more luxurious consistencies of lotions known as body butters. Victoria’s Secret has a great limited edition body butter called Up All Night that has a playful scent with notes of Freesia, midnight amber and a flirtatious hint of shimmer. Another key to glowing skin is exfoliating prior to hydrating. Adovia Dead Sea Salt Scrub helps you achieve just that. I like the fresh, but warm, coconut & vanilla scent. For Polished to perfection nails- Summer’s bright cheerful nail colors have long been gone, giving way to deeper sensual shades. Navy, dark olive green and scarlet red have been all over the runway. My choice is Zoya Nail Polish in Monica. It’s the perfect shade between deep plum and almost black. But let’s not forget about sparkles—add a touch of playful glimmer and a top coat with light reflecting pigments such as Essie Luxeffects Glitter Top Coat in ‘Shine of the Times.’ Be sure to trim around your cuticles

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It was November. Erin Wright had just turned 30, and she realized she would have to set some new goals. She met the first goal she’d set for herself when she was younger — having a home in the Tyler Area Builders Association’s Parade of Homes by the time she was 30 — in June. She finished her own home, a “rustic modern” project at Lake Hawkins, in time to get it into the parade, after beginning construction in February. The work went fast, because she’d been thinking and dreaming about and designing her home for a long time. “I definitely didn’t want it to be cookie cutter,” says Wright, a builder who owns Wright-Built in Hawkins. She’s also a member of the association board. “I think that we get stuck on a lot of things that we don’t need. I was just trying to do everything against the grain, so it could look good and be functional...” It’s an hour’s drive to Hawkins from Tyler, so she knew her house would have to be something special to attract visitors. She saw more people than she expected during the tour, she says. Libby Simmons, executive vice president of the Tyler Area Builders Association, described Wright’s house as “one to see.” “In the Parade of Homes™, houses outside the Tyler area typically receive less traffic because people aren’t willing to make the drive. But Erin’s house created a buzz, and everyone wanted to see it,” Simmons says. “Parade visitors soon labeled it as a must-see house on the tour.” Wright has been building and remodeling homes for almost half her life, after work-

ing in the banking industry. ”My father was always doing dirt work and running heavy equipment, and my step-dad was always building stuff,” she says. “I paid attention, and it was something that sparked my interest, and the rest just fell into place.” Her new house is in the Crystal Sands Estates at Lake Hawkins. She had already been living there in another house she built. It sold quickly when she put it up for sale. Her new house is slightly closer to the lake. “I lived in a tiny little cabin in Hawkins that I rented from a friend with a flooring store in Hawkins,” she recalls of the time between houses. It was a 400-square-foot cabin she shared with her boyfriend and two labs. “We spent a lot of time on the construction site, and we didn’t ever want to go home,” Wright says, laughing. The home she built combines function, efficiency, originality and style, and she designed it with her lifestyle in mind. The end result is a home with some eye-catching details that caters to the love of outdoor entertaining she shares with her boyfriend. THE OBVIOUS Visitors can’t miss the biggest deviation Wright took from typical home construction: the large steel canopy that shades the entire house — kind of like a carport for a house. “It shades the whole house, plus it lets air flow through it (between the canopy and the house),” Wright says. That means it really helped with her utility bills during the summer. | Cont. on page 68

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Cont. From page 67 | It also helped avoid the cost of constructing a traditional roof. She has a shop on her property she can use for storage, and the roof of her home was made so she can store things on top if she needs. “If you think about a whole house, you’ve got your roof structure, which is a lot of lumber,” she says. “I was able to eliminate my entire roof structure and do a flat roof and put this canopy over it and spend about the same money (as building a roof), but I had twice as much porch square footage...” The house itself is a 2,157-square-foot, three-bedroom, 2bath home. The outdoor canopy adds an additional 2,643-square-feet of living space, and she’s designed it for maximum use. SEAMLESS INDOOR/OUTDOOR LIVING “It’s been a lot of fun,” Wright says of living in her new house. “We entertain all the time. In fact, it seems like we entertain almost every day.” An outdoor kitchen on one side of the house adds to the ease of entertaining, but anyone working in the indoor kitchen can easily be a part of what’s going on outside. The indoor kitchen and outdoor barstool-seating area are separated by what looks like a window. It’s actually door that Wright turned on its side to use as a window. She spent $20 to purchase gas actuators — the kind used to hold up the heavy rear doors of sport utility vehicles — so the window can be propped open or shut easily. “It just kind of frames whoever is cooking. It brings the outside inside, so not just one person is closed off in the kitchen,” Wright says. A big-screen television hangs on the wall above the window to the kitchen, and a Big Ass Fan — it’s not a cuss word when it’s used as a trademark name — helps keep the front porch comfortable. A bar with a concrete countertop and a fire pit in the middle provide another place to gather outside; an outdoor bathroom adds to the convenience. Her outdoor living area also includes a pool table — complete with outdoor felt and rubber stoppers under the legs to avoid water damage — and a pool for use in the warmer months. Wright can further blur the line between indoor and outdoor living by opening the garage door she installed between the front porch and the great room that is next to the kitchen. The garage door is made of glass windows. It’s insulated and weather-proofed, so it completely seals off the house when it’s closed, Wright says. She designed the trusses in the barrel ceiling in the great room so the garage door would disappear up and into | Cont. on page 72 Right: The indoor kitchen and outdoor barstool-seating area are separated by a door Wright turned on its side to use as a window. 68

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Top left: Open view of the door used as an entertaining element in the kitchen. Below left: Exterior view of the kitchen window. Right: The unique master bathroom featuring a large, round cedar bathtub from Seattle-based Snorkel Hot Tubs and used an old hand pump to make her water fixture. Jan/Feb 2013 | INMagTexas.com

Cont. From page 68 | them when it’s opened. RUSTIC REUSE AND MODERN TOUCHES Wright’s personal touches can be found throughout her home in a number of design elements, from new items to old pieces that she repurposed. The home’s exterior carries the combination rustic/modern look with creosote siding and a product called Cor-Ten™, which resembles rusting barn tin. “I use (creosote) because it doesn’t turn like cedar,” Wright says. “It’s not that expensive compared to cedar.” The Cor-Ten™ is frequently used to achieve a contemporary feel in commercial buildings, she explains. “It rusts to the point that the rust is its coating. Rusted tin seems to be more rustic country, but (Cor-Ten) looks way more contemporary to me. I was trying to get the feel for both...,” Wright says. “I don’t have to worry about it rusting all the way through like regular barn tin.” The wood on the barrel ceiling in the great room, is an example of how she recycled and reused — it is from an old building from downtown Mineola.

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Wright thinks it’s probably more than 100 years old. Some of her interior doors are made from the pallets that the rocks she used in part of the construction arrived on. She ripped them up and made the doors, she says. Her open-concept kitchen was designed around a table she had purchased from a dealer in Canton about a year before she started construction on her house. The table was made from the bottom of an old train car, she says. Because of her limited construction time, she worked with the same dealer to make a number of pieces in her home or ship her unique items from Mexico She used old Coke crates for drawers in her kitchen by adding sliders and building them into the cabinets. A bar seating area in the kitchen has a copper countertop. Concrete is used for other countertops in the kitchen. She made the fixtures in the kitchen and elsewhere in the house from old egg baskets she found in Forney. She added decorative items found at Decorate Or-

nate in Gladewater, and floors are stained concrete. “I like it because I did my own, and I’ve got about $500 in all my flooring,” Wright says, but it’s also practical. She does a lot of entertaining, and she has two big dogs. The sand that would be inevitably tracked into the house would damage any other kind of floor. “I don’t have to worry about messing my floor up,” she says, but she does still have to worry about clean-up. That’s why she installed a central vacuum with floor sweeps. The bathrooms, again, are a combination of modern, antique and rustic touches. The guest bathroom, for instance was designed around a window she bought at an antique store in Forney. The window, she says, was reportedly an old European skylight. The vanity is made from a sideboard she purchased in Canton, and she made a vessel sink out of wooden bowl she purchased for $30. “We’ll see how it holds up,” she says. “I figured that for $30, but if doesn’t work out, I’ll just buy a new one.” Her master bathroom features double stainless steel sinks on a black walnut countertop. “I did the corner sinks so it would free up space in the middle, so I wouldn’t have to continue to put my blow dryer in the sink,” she says. Vintage light bulbs hanging from an old wooden yoke and an antique cabinet she had cut to look like a file cabinet complete the look. She purchased the large, round cedar bathtub from Seattle-based Snorkel Hot Tubs and used an old hand pump to make her water fixture. The wall behind the tub lets light in from outside through bottles that were cut in two and joined together with duct tape. They were mounted into the wall of glass rock and mortar. “It actually lets in a lot of light,” Wright says. As a builder, Wright uses subcontractors to finish much of the work on homes she builds. “Most of the guys that I use I’ve used for a long time, and they enjoy (the different approach she takes to her projects),” Wright says. “Sometimes they get a little frustrated, but they enjoy doing things that are a little different. It makes it where it’s not as boring, too. It’s kind of fun to them.” WHAT’S NEXT Now, she has her eye on the 60th annual Parade of Homes. She already has several houses in the works that could be candidates for the home tour. “Now I’ve got to get some new goals,” she says. “I’ll have to work on that next week.” Top: The customized guest bathroom designed around a window she bought at an antique store in Forney. Below: The master bedroom with rustic design touches.

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Two years after her younger brother’s death, Tracy Ford still grieves for the sibling who brought her so much joy and shared some of her favorite childhood moments. Her grief had a tangible form in a room at her house, which became piled with mementos, such as pictures and keepsakes, which she could not deal with after his funeral. That is, until Lorrie Gazette and IN Magazine teamed up to bring some relief and a big dose of comfort not only to Tracy but her whole family. Tracy’s shoulders sag when she talks about the burden the piles of boxes present, even atop her husband’s desk. | Cont. on page 80

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after Cont. From page 76 |“I could just walk in the room and I could feel this heaviness on me,” says the normally energetic brunette with the gentle demeanor and tender way of talking to her small son. Their son was a toddler and their baby was only weeks old when Tracy and her husband, Zac, got the news of Justin’s death. Lorrie, owner of Creative Order & Design, understands Tracy’s pain because she has also suffered loss. “I lost my oldest son, Chris, a year ago in June. He was a teddy bear; he was this soft-spoken tenderhearted teddy bear. Everybody loved him,” Lorrie says, “People think that you should be past it, but it still hurts so deeply. I knew immediately that Tracy was the one. Her story touched me.” This is the third time IN Magazine and Lorrie’s company have teamed up for the

Room from Heaven contest. In the seven years since they started Creative Order & Design, Lorrie and her team have transformed countless rooms. Some of Lorrie’s favorite projects have been helping senior citizens move into smaller quarters. “We are trying to make people comfortable in their homes and also comforting their hearts,” Lorrie says. Whether they are helping young couples or seniors, Lorrie’s team always focuses on bringing peace and comfort. “We go in and touch people’s lives by transforming their room's. We create that peaceful, serene environment that they are needing.” Tracy was so excited about the room’s transformation, she hand-wrote a note to Lorrie’s team and read it out loud to them before they left her home. “There was not a dry eye in the room,” Lorrie says. “Their team came in and made this such an easy process for me. They were all so kind, so sensitive” Tracy says, “Lorrie especially is awesome. I felt like I walked

away with eight new friends.” Like so many East Texas families, Tracy’s family suffered but yet learned to be somewhat effective in their encouragement of her brother as he battled an addiction that eventually took his life. Still, his death was a shock that broke her heart. “Justin loved life; he was a good person who had a huge heart,” Tracy says, “He just couldn’t win the battle with addiction, but he wanted to.” Her friend had been encouraging her to enter the IN Magazine Room from Heaven contest. So on the last day before the deadline, with no thought of actually winning, Tracy filled out the application. No stranger to remodels, this is the fifth house Tracy and Zac have restored. Normally bustling with energy for each project, the couple has always enjoyed working and laughing side by side to bring new life to each house, even refurbishing old furniture for special rooms as their children play nearby. This time, however, she could not bring herself to open the door to the one room. ‘We had gutted the whole house except this room. My best friend didn’t even know that room was there.” Now she smiles at the thought of how the clutter could be transformed into a space dedicated as her husband’s office; a space she says means so much to her because of the way he has always comforted her throughout the challenges her brother’s addiction presented. “(Zac) is so happy the house is finished. He told Lorrie, ‘I feel like our house is complete now.’” For Tracy, knowing her husband will have nice, quiet place to work from home is a bonus blessing. “He is an awesome husband and dad,” she says with a smile, adding that their son calls the room “his and daddy’s office.” Besides organizing, Lorrie’s team painted, installed cabinets, hung blinds and chose beautiful decorator furnishings and rugs, along with all the other topnotch touches. “The room is unbelievable. Its way better than anything I could have imagined. It’s so beautiful,” Tracy says. While Tracy is sad her kids will have to grow up without Uncle Justin, she is confident they will all be reunited with him someday in heaven. “I have a huge peace about knowing that I’ll be with him again. I know he’s OK,” she says. In the meantime, she and Lorrie are comforting each other with the comfort they have received along the way. They are finding that even life’s hardest moments have a way of bringing people together. Tracy’s husband has a clean desk to prove it. Jan/Feb 2013 | INMagTexas.com

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ractical. Personal. A reflection of changing lifestyles. For a while, people were nervous about personalizing their choices for kitchen and bathroom fixtures too much, in case it affected their home’s resale value, says Jill Peters, showroom manager at the Coburn Supply kitchen and bath showroom in Tyler. “Now, more people are saying, ‘This is what I want to get,’” she says, “‘I’m going to use it. I’m going to get what I want.’” Peters says despite uncertainties the country is facing — the economy, the effects of the election — people are still building new houses and remodeling their kitchens and bathrooms. “We probably do see more of a trend of people trying to stay in their budgets,” Peters says. “They’re not going to just blow it out on the bathroom.”

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Showplace. That said, in Tyler, the look gravitates more toward oil-rubbed bronze and brushed nickel. Peters says people are seeking a lighter bronze than in the past — champagne or satin versus a dark brown or chocolate bronze.

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“Many people are taking out their bathtubs and putting in big showers,” Abernathy says. “Part of it just people’s lifestyles change,” she adds. “We don’t have time to spend an hour in the bathtub.” Still, people want to maximize on the time they do have. Hand-held sprayers and body sprays — jets that shoot out water and that are customized for her side of the shower and his — are among the popular touches. “If you’re going to be in the shower just for a few minutes, you want it to be enjoyable and relaxing,” she says. “And then —space as people downsize, there’s less room in their bathroom.” It’s also expensive to fill up a bathtub with water, Abernathy says. Another

bathroom trend reflects America’s aging population — walk-in tubs. Peters says her store has sold perhaps five of them this year, compared to one or two a year in the past. “That may be something people want to consider for an elderly parent or even for themselves,” she says. “It actually has a door that opens up and you can walk in and sit down on a seat. You can close the door.” The tub then takes a few minutes to fill up, but a person can use the sprayer to stay warm during that time. Whirlpool air baths also are becoming popular, Peters says. A typical whirlpool recirculates dirty water inside the tub. Air baths, though, never pull water out of the tub. The work with air, instead. “It’s cleaner,” she says, adding that they also clean themselves after each use. “Especially with people’s hectic lifestyles, they don’t want to maintain a whirlpool.” Trough faucets, in which the water is visible as it arrives at the sink are popular. Vessel sinks, or bowls that sit on top of the counter, also remain trendy.

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“In the kitchen I’m selling a lot of farmhouse style sinks,” Abernathy says, explaining that they’re large, single-bowl sinks that will accommodate an entire cookie sheet or pancake griddle. Kohler, in particular, makes a popular cast iron model, she says, that’s specifically designed for kitchen remodels. People can cut out their kitchen sink and slide the Kohler model in. “You don’t need an entire new cabinet to install it,” Abernathy says. “It’s great for a remodel.” Single-compartment sinks also are popular at Coburn, where Peters also says E-Granite™ are a big seller. Made by Elkay, it’s a crushed granite and resin product that is easy to clean and durable. Touch faucets keep the cook with messy hands from spreading their mess onto kitchen faucets, and magnetic pull down faucets are an alternative to the old-style spray hoses on a kitchen sink. “Delta makes a magnetic head for their pull down faucet, and that keeps the head from dangling,” Abernathy says. The retractable hose retracts by itself, she adds. “The designs people liked years ago are updated and made better,” Abernathy says. Peters has one in her home. “I’ve had mine for two-and-a-half years and I haven’t had any trouble with it,” she says. Instahot faucets also are a “wonderful” addition to a kitchen, Abernathy says. “It’s a small faucet, and it has instant hot water for your tea, your cup of noodles or Easy Mac.... Those are great gadgets. It’s like a little mini-faucet,” she says.

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Repurpose&Reuse By David Wallace | Photos by Herb Nygren Jr.

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From dishes To decor

et's welcome the New Year! The fact is, if you're holding and reading the current issue of IN Magazine, then the world is still here. However, if the Mayan prediction for an apocalyptic "end of the world" had come true, your home might now be in ruins, and knowing how to turn trash into treasure would serve you very well. By now, you are probably very aware of my devoted love of "modernism." There are many different styles of art and I promise I will try to step outside the box of modernism at some point. Recently, I collected several natural elements and will demonstrate some projects that incorporate them into art and decor in the near future. In this issue, however, I cannot resist demonstrating another piece of modern art. In my home, I’ve created many pieces of art, architectural elements and even furniture that reflect the modernistic style. Modernism began around the age of Industrialism, in the late 19th century. The concept gained momentum in 1920s, ’30s, ’40s, then peaked in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. It is still going very strong today, although many artists like to refer to our current time as post modernism, to me, it is still very similar to modernism. The rules of Modernism are basically that of no rules — anything goes. Nontraditionalism rules the day. That sounds awfully like today, don't you think? Some of my favorite artists have emerged from this era—artists like Mark Rothko, Louise Nevelson and Jackson Pollock. These artist lives were close in time although they have all passed away. Their work was very prolific

and is relevant today. If by some chance you think the artwork of modernism is less valuable than that of say some of the great masters of the art world, you can think again. A sunset-colored painting by Rothko sold for $86.9 million at Christie’s auction in New York. This was a new record set for a piece of modern art. Never underestimate the power of art to make a space unique. The art I've created for my home is often missing from the walls, because I’ve been blessed to have so many venues request that I display my work in their gallery or other facilities. Whenever my art is missing from the home, though, the space is not the same. The home still looks pretty good, but it is not the same, because the art makes a noticeable difference. Sometimes art will sell and never return to its rightful place. This is almost always painful since it is unlikely I’ll be able to duplicate it. It feels a little like losing a child that grew up and left home.

I truly believe that you can repurpose and reuse almost anything into art, functional or otherwise. Most of my art comes from found objects, but I have been known to purchase items from garage sales, flea markets and thrift stores. On rare occasions, I have also sought out items at local home improvement outlets. Free or cheap, that is my mantra. When you visit places like thrift stores or garage sales, you will almost certainly find an area with all kinds of dishes, utensils and other kitchen and dining room bits and pieces. Seldom will you find whole sets of anything. For this reason, the things you do find will be very inexpensive, most items at a giveaway price. These bits and pieces are the little extras that can make your art go from ordinary to extraordinary. The substantial piece of wall art in this project was made easily and for as little as eight dollars. You will notice a number of ordinary kitchen and dining room | Cont. on page 90

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Cont. From page 89 | items used to create this piece. There are dishes, pillar candle holders, a dish rack, vase, cake plate and even a globe shaped ceiling light cover. Most of these items were purchased for a dollar or less. Also, note the stack of nine rectangular, gold colored chargers. These are made of plastic, but they look metallic. They are not in mint condition, but this will add some patina to my piece, and because they are plastic, they are very light weight and inexpensive. Traditionally, a plate would rest in the middle of the charger, mostly for decorative purpose, but also would provide a server with a way to handle the dinner plate without actually touching the plate. Here is what you will do: First, arrange the dishes (chargers) in a pleasing pattern. In this case, I chose three rows of three plates. Odd numbers usually look best in a creative arrangement. Leave a little space between all the dishes, don't let them touch each other, but don't leave too much space either. About a quarter inch space is enough, maybe a little more. Next, measure the arrangement for length and width; this will vary according to what you are using. My arrangement measured about 30-by39 inches. This measurement will help determine the size of board needed as a mounting surface for the chargers. I am going to allow the plates to overhang the mounting surface by about three inches on each side. This means my board will be six inches less in total length and width. That means a piece of wood 24 inches wide by 33 inches in length. I'm using quarter-inch-thick MDF board. MDF is a manufactured wood product that is cheaper than plywood, and very strong. MDF is sold in all kind of sizes, including a 24-by-48-inch piece, which is what I am using. The 24-inch width is already perfect. I measured the length for 33 inches, then cut and remove 15 inches from the length. You can use a hand saw or power jig saw, but follow all the rules of safety. You could make it very easy on yourself by asking someone at your local home store to cut one for you. There's not much more to do except to add some hangers at the top; I like hinged D hangers. Now all you need to do is paint the wood and let it dry. Finish by attaching the plates with glue. I like Gorilla glue, but give it several hours to fully cure. Gorilla glue gives you plenty of time for repositioning of your plates. Don't forget to leave a small amount of space between each plate, so they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t touch each other. Remember to paint the wood before you attach the plates. Acrylic water based craft paint works well. A small bottle can be purchased for about one dollar. 90

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Craft paints are highly pigmented, so coverage is easy on MDF. One coat is enough and a flat finish is better than gloss. This board is for mounting and hanging purposes only. The board is basically going to disappear behind the chargers or plates. The dishes will appear to be floating in space. You can use this idea in many ways for creating your own modernistic art. A side project for this piece was the end table made by gluing a cake plate to a vase. Both were ceramic and white, and they look like one piece. I also glued a glass plate to a pillar candle holder. I did this twice. Now I have two stands for a tablescape. Instead of Gorilla glue, use an adhesive made for glass and metal to attach these items. I even made a very modernistic candle holder by simply setting the white round ceiling globe on top of the small cabinet

dish rack. I used an electric battery powered pillar candle. You could use a real candle, but never leave real candles burning unattended. Now get started. Make your own modern art. Make it from dishes and make your own mark on the world of art or if you would like to make a good investment, buy a piece of my modern art. I'll give you a really good deal!

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NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONs Want to be succesful with your 2013 fitness Goals? Here are a few ways to get started.

By Leslie Harrison | Photos by Sarah A. MIller

ew Year's resolutions have a certain stigma attached to them. You begin with well laid plans to clean up your diet and hit the gym with renewed fervor — only to find yourself just days into the new year on the couch covered in Cheeseitz and Rolos, staring at your brand new running shoes still in the box. New year — same story. You would have bet against all odds that this time around you were going to make those healthy changes. So what happened? The key to maintaining your New Year's health and fitness resolutions may have as much to do with the actual resolutions you make as it does with the actions you take once they are made. Sounds pretty simple, but it's fair to say that most people don't really consider the full effect of their resolution, especially one that has the potential of impacting their entire lifestyle. Possessing self-awareness when crafting a resolution, that is knowing what changes you are capable of maintaining and how you will handle a slip-up, is crucial to increasing the likelihood of success. Thoughtfully matching a resolution with your personality can go a long way in helping you reach your goals. Once you have synced your resolutions to your personality, there are several steps that you can take to keep you on track. The following suggestions demonstrate

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how your personality comes into play when setting your goals.

Be realistic when making your resolutions. It's probably not a good idea to

pledge to get up early every morning to workout if you aren't a morning person. Along the same lines, if you are an "all or nothing" type of person, you shouldn’t commit to going to the gym every day knowing that you will write-off the rest of the week if you miss one day. Consider triggers. Triggers are anything that causes you to stray from your intended course. If you know that you won't be able to stop yourself from ordering a calorie laden meal at your favorite restaurant, avoid going there until you feel that you are in control. Do you promise to have only "one bite" of ice cream and next thing you know you're licking the remnants of the inside of a gallon container? Don't allow yourself to have even a taste if it will unravel your willpower. Get support. Enlist family, friends and co-workers to help either by giving you emotional support, assisting you in avoiding bad habits or preventing you from slacking off. If you need accountability, ask someone if you can check in with them daily and report your progress. Take it a step further and have a friend or family member join you in making resolutions for a healthier life-

Be honest about changes you can reasonably expect that you will be able to make and stick to. This doesn't mean that you shouldn't set challenging goals, however, but keep your resolutions in perspective. One personality style isn't necessarily going to be more successful at maintaining a resolution than another style, but armed with the knowledge of your personality type can assist in formulating attainable and maintainable resolutions.

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Goblet squat Standing with feet shoulder width apart, keep your chest high and push your bottom back; keep your knees behind your toes and hold the kettle bell at chest height but do not rest it on your chest.

Upright row Front lunge with kettle bell shoulder press- complete 15 reps with one leg then switch legs (try to keep your arm straight but not completely locked out).

Plank tap Holding a plank position, tap the kettle bell 30 times alternating hands.

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Here we go, again. A New Year has begun with new hopes and goals that usually include some type of program to exercise and eat healthy. The idea of starting a new fitness regiment at the beginning of the year is nothing new and usually pretty typical. Take for example Sharon, who is in her mid 40s and has not exercised regularly since her early 30s. She is frustrated with the weight she has gained over the years, suffers from a lack of energy and feels she is always taking care of everyone but herself. Sharon is ready to get started with all new work out clothes, a new gym membership and schedule of all of the exercise classes. She decided to cut out all soda and fast food — deciding to cook every night. She recalls the eating plan she once followed to quickly shed extra pounds and has purchased the products and ingredients needed to get started. Sharon is confident that she will stick to it as she remembers how her discipline and motivation many years ago. Then suddenly after a few short weeks, it seems to be a struggle to stay consistent, and she falls back into her old ways and gives up. She is frustrated with her inability to stick with any type of exercise program and feels hopeless with her lack of motivation and discipline to eat healthy.

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The reality is a lack of discipline and motivation might not be her real struggle. Sharon, unfortunately, has attempted to start an exercise and diet program that was successful in a previous time in her life. She hasn’t stopped to evaluate her current lifestyle to realize that what worked in the past most likely will not work in her present. If Sharon’s story sounds familiar, take a few minutes and walk down memory lane. Do you recall a time that you were exercising consistently and eating healthier? How might that time in your life be different from today? Were you single with no other responsibilities or obligations except for yourself? Were you married with no children and free to spend your evenings how you wanted? Did you have a job with few demands and responsibilities? Was it before you entered the world of being a grandparent? Now jump forward to today. How has it changed? Are you married and trying to adjust to new schedules, interests and routines? Do you have young children juggling new responsibilities with less sleep? Are your children involved in extracurricular activities and most of your days are spent in the car? Has your career blossomed with new responsibilities and demanding deadlines? Are you a proud

grandparent who assists in babysitting and volunteers in your community? If any of these scenarios describe your current lifestyle, it is unrealistic to think you can exercise and eat as you did in your past when life was so different than today. If you have not evaluated your current lifestyle before starting a new program, you may be setting yourself up for failure. Trying to exercise and eat the way you did in the past with different responsibilities, schedules and fitness level will simply not work in your new season of life. It is selfsabotage. I have worked with many women to create a fitness and food design for their lifestyle who realize they can be successful at weight loss, eating healthy, exercising, preparing healthy meals and having more energy; but it can’t happen by trying to do what worked in the past. To exercise and eat healthy and consistently, forget about what might have worked in your past. Create a new program that will work with your present lifestyle and fitness level. Remember there are different seasons of our life and we have to adapt to each one. Your season may even change month to month and require a new plan. However, with a little effort, preparation, knowledge and flexibility, you can have discipline and stay motivated to take care of your health by working out regularly with a healthy diet. As you prepare your resolutions to exercise and eat healthy for 2013, do it right with a realistic plan that you can stick with longer than a few weeks. Throw out your past way of doing things and embrace your present with a completely new plan.

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A creative mix of flavors for a fun night of food. Recipes By Bernard Gauthier | Photos by Sarah A. Miller

Caribbean Salmon En Papillote Cook time: about 30 minutes Ingredients

8 Seven oz. fresh salmon filets 8 oz. of unsweetened coconut milk 8 Soup spoons of sour cream 3 Soup spoons of fresh grated ginger 4 Soup spoons of fresh chopped garlic 4 Soup spoons of chopped fresh dill 2 Tbsp. of olive oil Sea salt and ground pepper to taste. Julienne squash, Zucchini and carrots 8 sleeves of parchment paper and aluminum foil

Directions

> In a salad bowl, mix olive oil, one soup spoon of garlic and fresh grated ginger, as well as salt and pepper. Place salmon in it and rub the fish with the mixture until even covered. Let sit in cooler for 10 minutes. > In another bowl, mix sour cream and coconut milk with the remaining garlic, ginger and dill. Season to taste. Texture should be medium thick. > Place vegetables in the center of the parchment paper, overlapping each other and season to taste. Repeat on each sheet of parchment paper. > Lay salmon on top of vegetables and close the sleeve of parchment paper so steam cannot escape. > Place salmon in the preheated oven for 10 minutes and then let it sit covered for two or three minutes. > Open bag and ensure the fish is cooked all the way through. Serve on the center of the plate and use rice and any other garnish you prefer, such as sautĂŠed spinach or grilled pineapple.

Coconut Rice Cook time: about 30 minutes Ingredients

14 oz. of long grain white rice 1.5 oz. of melted butter 16 oz. of water or vegetable stock 12 oz. of unsweetened coconut milk Ground black pepper and salt as needed.

Directions

> Prepare rice following instructions on bag.

> Put rice in a strainer and rinse with cold water until the water dripping from the rice becomes clear. > Place vegetables in the center of the parchment paper, overlapping each other and season to taste. Repeat on each sheet of parchment paper. > Heat butter in a pot on medium heat, and then add the rice and sautĂŠ until rice is coated in butter and starts to brown. > Place salmon in the preheated oven for 10 minutes and then let it sit covered for two or three minutes. > Add water (or vegetable stock) and coconut milk, as well as salt and pepper. Bring to simmer and cover the pot. > Place covered pot in oven at 350 F for 12 minutes or until rice is tender. > Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to let rice sit a couple of minutes and fluff it with a fork before serving.

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Sweet Crepes Cook time: about 10 minutes

Ingredients

1/3 cup of sugar 1 Tbsp. of buckwheat flour 1 Tbsp. of canola oil or melted unsalted butter 1/3 cup of water 1 Tsp. of salt 1 Tsp. vanilla extract 2 eggs 1 Âž cup of all-purpose flour 2 Âź cup of low fat milk 1 Jar of Nutella

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Directions

> In a bowl, mix the sugar, buckwheat flour, melted unsalted butter or canola oil, water, salt, vanilla extract and eggs. > Alternate adding the all-purpose flour and low fat milk, mixing well after each addition. > Prepare a non-stick sauce pan at a medium heat. Pour a ladle of batter into the pan and perform one full rotation in order to spread all the batter. > Leave to cook for 15 seconds, remove with spatula and place on plate. > Fill crepe with a Tbsp. of Nutella, fold and serve. Garnish to your preference.

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The Dining Guide Jakes Jakes Tyler Steaks and Seafood, a Tyler favorite for dinner is now open for lunch, Tuesday thru Friday 11am - 2pm. The lunch menu at Jakes features fabulous salads, soups, sandwiches and pizza. In addition to the menu, Chef David Wallace is creating daily lunch specials that are out of this world good!! Most lunch items are priced under $10. Of course, if you are in the mood for a steak for lunch, Jakes is always the place to go.

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Years of Pound Cakes

By Andy Taylor | Photos by Sarah A. Miller

hen customers walk into Janie’s Cakes, they won’t find the shop’s namesake hidden in a corner office. That side of the cake business never appealed to Janie Clapp, who is celebrating 10 years of selling all-natural pound cakes. Janie is more likely to be donning a hair net and monitoring the freshest batch of cakes from the heart of her store on Front Street in Tyler. The new year marks the return of the only seasonal cake in her shop: “The More Amour Jane” is a chocolate pound cake that will only be available through about Mother’s Day. Janie says the popular Valentine’s Day item is just one of many specialty pound cakes she cooks up with her daughter and business partner,

Above: Janie and daughter Katherine Clapp. Right: The More Amour Jane.

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“… I guess when you do something you just love doing, all of the sudden you turn around and 10 years later, here we are.” Katherine Crow. To call it a family tradition seems a bit of an understatement. “Our whole family has been cooking and baking since we were both children,” Janie says. “… I guess when you do something you just love doing, all of the sudden you turn around and 10 years later, here we are.” But Janie’s journey didn’t begin 10 years ago. Long before she switched to making only pound cakes, she was known for her custom wedding cakes. She began selling made-to-order creations in 1987 with a mantra she lives by today: use the best ingredients available and give the customer the best product you can make. It’s the kind of thing people don’t for-

get. Janie says returning customers still brag about how they were one of her last wedding orders before the switch to pound cakes. Katherine points out that as she got older, she made some of those wedding cakes too. “I’ve always been in the kitchen and baking since I was little,” Katherine says. “I would get out of school and be up at the bakery.” Today, Janie lets the next generation in on the action. She says her grandson, who affectionately calls her “Papu,” often joins her to experiment in the kitchen. “It’s a great way to keep your family connected,” she says. “We all get in there

together. We spend an incredible amount of time in our kitchen. It’s just so fun.” The joy she takes in her craft shows in the way she manages her business. As Janie makes the rounds in her shop, she cracks jokes and catches up with every employee she finds. Even when she is in the office she shares with her daughter, the cake-crafting duo look on through a giant window at a vista of machinery and shipping boxes. The disconnect that sometimes exists between business owners and the gritty work of the factory floor is nowhere to be found – just like any trace of artificial flavoring or dyes. “We have this neat dynamic as a team and these great employees that work for us,” Katherine says. “… It’s like we’ve become this family. We all know about each other and each other’s kids.” Janie says their model may be unusual, but there’s a method to her madness. She says the precision and attention to detail required to meet her customer’s standards means a lot of work goes into each cake. “We make cakes the old-fashioned way,” Katherine says. “Which is making something from scratch – literally finding each individual ingredient to produce into one product.” It’s a philosophy they take seriously, from using eggs produced locally by the family’s hens to the choice of natural ingredients Janie is “very particular” about. It may be one of the few subjects that turn the ever-present smile on the baker’s face to a look of sincere determination. She admits her habit of rejecting the cheapest and most preservable ingredients can sometimes complicate recipes. She jokingly described the challenge of making a red velvet cake without artificial food coloring. After reaching out to friends, Janie and Katherine decided to try natural beet powder to give the cake the classic red color. It seemed to do the trick, but Katherine says it had an unfortunate side effect: “Your cake tasted like beet.” They ultimately decided to let their customers experience velvet cake in its natural, golden brown state. “I’m just real particular about no chemicals, no colors, any of that,” Janie says. “I don’t think we should be putting that stuff into our bodies.” Perhaps most impressive is that she found a way to make it work. Janie ships cakes across the country, in addition to selling them at FRESH. Because her downtown location is open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, she says these options offer more flexibility and help her keep up with de-

mand. Of course, expanding her reach presented another challenge: making sure the customer gets a fresh cake, even it’s not purchased in her own shop. Because she doesn’t use preservatives, she says she maintains a good relationship with storeowners and practices creative shipping techniques. It may be a lot of work, but it’s a just another reason she says she’ll never get used to the idea of sitting behind a computer in a corner office. “That’s just awful,” she says. “That’s just so not me.” Top: Janie and Katherine Clapp. Middle: The More Amour Jane and the Plain Jane. Bottom: Farm fresh eggs and all natural Nielson Massey pure vanila extract are amoung the simple ingredients list Janie uses in her pound cakes.

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A Form of Modern Slavery

Tyler native Julianne Baker works to brings hope to victims of human trafficking.

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In 2010, the white house declared January as National slavery and human trafficking prevention month. By Morgan Jones | Courtesy Photos

ulfilling her childhood dream to help women empower themselves, Tyler native Julianne Baker has devoted the last six months to volunteering in a Redeemed Ministries safe house. “I didn’t think it would look exactly like this, but this was sort of always my life dream,” Baker says. “My dream was to be in a place that I could provide a healing atmosphere for people who are severely struggling … I am living my dream right now, and it’s pretty exciting.” Redeemed Ministries is a nonprofit Christian based organization dedicated to seeking, empowering and bringing Jesus Christ’s love to women rescued from the human trafficking and commercial sex trafficking industries. As a complete volunteer supported organization, Redeemed relies on dedicated individuals like Baker to reach their goals to save lives. After living in Tyler the majority of her life, Baker left behind her family and friends to live in a safe house in the Woodlands, north of Houston, to serve as volunteer resident adviser. She provides for the rescued women brought to the safe house by cooking, cleaning, chaperoning and implementing the program healing objectives. “We are there to provide as much care as we physically can and to implement the program that we have in place for the girls,” Baker says. “We want to do as much healing as possible.” Having grown up desiring to help individuals who have undergone a traumatic event, Baker attended Texas A&M University, where she acquired a degree in psychology. Baker was aware of the general notion that the human trafficking and sex industries were a global problem; however, it wasn’t until she traveled with several mission groups that she was really aware of the heartbreaking crisis. While in Germany attending a Discipleship Training School with Youth with a Mission (YWAM), Baker treaded down the streets of the red light prostitution district witnessing to the women that were working in the sex industry. “You could just feel the darkness there, and you could see the pain reflected in the women’s eyes,” Baker says. “We would go up to each window and show them that we thought they were beautiful and that God loves them and He could give them a gift. For some of them that might be the only time they weren’t being used and instead were being treated like humans.” Baker also ventured to Asia with YWAM to also help those affected by the industries. “When I went overseas with the missions, it really opened

my eyes to the problem,” Baker says. “When I saw all of these things happening I realized that this was a perfect avenue for my passion to help women and get involved in a different ministry.” After returning to the states, Baker set out to find a ministry in which she could utilize her degree and follow her helpful heart. “I pretty much immediately started looking for some sort of ministry to be a part of that was going to enable me to fulfill my passion, so Redeemed just kind of fell in my lap out of the blue,” Baker says. “I was just astounded because of the heart and the magnitude that Redeemed has for helping.” Now as an adviser for a safe house, Baker works to heal women, who have previously been enslaved, during a 12-week Bible based course. Each girl is required to attend a weekly Bible study and accompany the advisers to a church service. The program is incentive based that allows the girls to earn gift cards and other prizes when they finish a positive inspiring book. “We aren’t forcing God upon them, we just make sure they feel mentally restored when it does happen,” Baker says. “They are required to go to church service every week, but we don’t require them to sit in it; we just require that so that the resident advisers do get that chance to go.” While in the program, the girls also are able to make handmade tile coasters to be sold through the Redeemed organization. The girls receive their whole sales proceeds for each coaster sold. “The (coasters) are super professional-looking, and it’s pretty therapeutic for the girls to make them,” Baker says. “It also allows them to be earning money while in the house without actually having a job.” After their time is up in a safe house, the women are fostered by a family for a year when they will further continue to establish their own lives. “When the girls come into the house, their conversation to us is generally all about their experience in the industry and the abuse that they received through that,” Baker says. “It’s incredibly exciting to hear them start talking about something in the future instead of something in the past.” Baker explains these small moments to be what makes her donated time and efforts worth it. “It’s little things like conversational patterns that change, or what they chose to watch on TV that is an indicator to the change that is going on inside,” Baker says. | Cont. on page 116

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LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE CAUSE:

For The Silent contends for children silenced by sex trafficking and exploitation through prevention, intervention and community mobilization initiatives. Prevention: We work to educate at-risk teens about the danger of pimps/traffickers and how to recognize sexual exploitation. Intervention: We work to locate, identify, and rescue victims of sexual exploitation within the US through street outreach to key locations and online monitoring of escort ads. Mobilization: We work to inspire, equip, and mobilize church communities to fight sex trafficking and bring freedom to victims by providing 1-2 day intensive training workshops. More info available at website: www.forthesilent.org

The mission of Refuge of Light is to provide a safe haven, redemptive rescue and restoration of female victims of domestic minor sex trafficking through advocacy, awareness and holistic care. Their major awareness campaign for 2013, Traffick Signals, is part of ROL’s ongoing general and strategic awareness initiatives that include Tyler area school teachers, counselors and nurses. These individuals are professionally and relationally positioned to help identify child victims of abuse and neglect, which place them at high-risk of behavior that makes them targets for predators who seek to further abuse and exploit them for personal gain, or as part of a criminal enterprise. Understanding the underlying causes of the crime of human trafficking and recognizing and responding to the red flags of victimized children is critical to assisting law enforcement, child welfare agencies and child advocacy centers identify victims so that they can receive services needed to heal and restore them. More info available at website: www.refugeoflight.org

where flowers are fair.

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Cont. From page 115 |‘That is such a moment of excitement and you just want to do an internal happy dance. Most of these girls didn’t have dreams, their dream was to stay alive, stay alive, survive.” Sex trafficking is when an individual makes a profit by selling a human being in the commercial sex industry by means of force, fraud or coercion, according to the Redeemed Ministries website. About 14,500 to 17,500 victims are brought into the states annually for the purpose of human smuggling and human trafficking. Of those thousands of victims, 25 percent of human trafficking cases in the United States occur in the Texas, according to Redeemed Ministries. In 2007, of all the calls made to the national trafficking hotline, 37 percent came from the Houston area, according to Redeemed Ministries. “Redeemed often talks about it as being just about one girl, one life saved, one girl redeemed and they have many success stories, but ultimately it is about the little victories that we can celebrate on a daily basis with one girl,” Baker says. “Because on any given day, I hear horrific stories, I see the pain and trauma that these girls have gone through and how it affects all manner of their daily habits.” Redeemed focuses on the Houston area and the growing need there based on the 137 known brothels. Other known locations that provide a front for human trafficking include cantinas, strip clubs, massage spas, modeling studios, brothels and other private establishments, according to Redeemed Ministries. To aid those who have been under forced labor and exploited by the growing human trafficking and sex industry, Redeemed is focused on educating people, seeking victims, and redeeming hearts. The organization also focuses on building relationships with legislators, law enforcement and other service providers to foster cooperation. “What we have come to realize is it’s not the police’s fault, because they know about them, it’s the structure of the laws that disables them from going in and doing something to shut these places down,” Baker says. Redeemed utilizes three key focuses to con-

Tyler native Julianne Baker front the gruesome industries: outreach, aftercare and advocacy. Redeemed utilizes different denominations of churches and their congregations to network and collaborate to fight human trafficking and commercial sex. “Redeemed is so amazing because it functions in a way that brings together all these different church groups and organizations to band together against this one issue,” Baker says. “So everyone can help out in so many ways.” Redeemed also provides outreach through field ministry groups who are responsible for prayers, direct contact work with victims, and research. “Some of the girls have come to us that way, but most of the girls have come by referrals through law enforcement or government agencies or even other programs in different cities that transfer girls to us because they feel our program would be the best fit for them,” Baker says. The final mission vision focus is the aftercare the organization provides to the women rescued and is the branch of effort that Baker is fulfilling by volunteering as the resident adviser. “I see working with women in the sex industry as a long-term career, but it is so taxing emotionally and physically for me,” Baker says. “I hope God will show me a way in which I can keep this up long term, maintenance wise. But I am open to him moving me to a different place and ultimately this has always been my passion and dream.”

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escape to bastrop By Destination Diva, Debbie Labicki | Photos coutesy of Los Pines Resort, Bastrop Vistors Center and Ophelia Simon.

eparated from the Piney Woods of East Texas by over 80 miles, traveling on the same roads as Native Americans, Spanish explorers and early pioneers, my recent road trip led me to the Loblolly Pine Forest in Bastrop. Bastrop is a beautiful historic community at the gateway of the Lost Pines Region of Central Texas. As the second oldest city in Texas officially founded in 1832, is recognized as a Texas Main Street City. Bastrop also recently earned the title of Most Historic Small Town in Texas because of the number of buildings listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In 2010, the city was named a Distinctive Destination by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Main Street is lined with century-old structures housing antique shops, specialty stores and great restaurants. Arriving at the Pecan Street Inn B&B, an elegant turn of the century Victorian was like being in an old movie. The front porch swing beckoned for a sit before we entered the charming inn. Shawn Pletsch greeted us in southern style with iced tea on the wrap-around porch under the native pecan trees. Inside a romantic fireplace, elaborate millwork, longleaf heart of pine floors, old Above: The Wolf Dancer Golf Course at the Los Pines Resort.

glass windows and transoms indicative of the Victorian period abounded. Upstairs, the bedroom suites have private baths, new fixtures with antique furnishings and all the amenities a vacationer of business traveler needs. TripAdvisor consistently votes it as the No. 1 Bed & Breakfast in Bastrop. All we had to do was stroll 1-1/2 blocks to the historic district and experience this quaint town. Antique shops, boutiques, galleries, specialty shops and restaurants were plenty to explore. Of course I had to check out the Way2Diva shop—I also loved Cripple Creek&Co., which hosts Texas-made and produced products. Owner Dee Dee Peddy features Texas wine tasting paired with unique cheese bites, along with local art. Liberty Glenn shop had a surprising collection of linens and décor; I loved her equestrian art selection. Bastrop Brewhouse just up the hill from the Colorado River had live music, local cuisine and handcrafted ales. We enjoyed a break from shopping and sat on one of the multi-level decks enjoying the view of the river and beer garden. In just a few steps we were on the half-mile June Hill Pape Riverwalk Trail, enjoying nature on the river. Baxters on Main was our choice for casual fine dining under soaring beaded ceiling, raw brick walls and 1920’s décor. The locals have voted Baxters on Main as the best overall restaurant for nine years. We had a short walk back to the Inn where the oversized king bedroom suite with sumptuous bedding awaited | Cont. on page 120 Jan/Feb 2013 | INMagTexas.com

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The Lost Pines Resort.

Spring flowers in the area.

Rafting on the Colorado River.

The Lazy River at the Lost Pines Resort.

The Colorado River.

Bastrop historical home District.

Cont. FROM page 119 | us. Innkeeper Bill Pletsch was in the country kitchen the next morning preparing a signature breakfast: Pecan waffles, fruit, little sausages and fresh orange juice. He shared lively stories of the history of this region, an directed us to the Visitor Center to get a guide with histories behind the bronze-cast medallions along Chestnut Street. It was a walk through time marking each medallion. Shawn gave us a map to take a short drive to tour some of the vintage 19th Century homes along the tree canopied streets in the Historic District. Many movies have been made in the area, taking advantage of this nostalgic setting. To satisfy my Wanderlust, I was now heading to the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa, just a stone’s throw up the road toward Austin. The resort is a luxury wilderness adventure getaway on 400 acres with hiking trails. The tranquil Colorado River winds through the landscape with pecan, pine and oak trees. An 18-hole Wolfdancer golf course, tennis courts, world-class Spa Django and eight dining options are available at the resort. Recreational amenities include kayaking, hiking archery, trap shooting and horseback riding. We had a luxurious room situated close to the Spa. The spa was named after Django Reinhart, a guitar player with a gypsy soul who was very influential to Willie Nelson and a host of other Texan musicians. Django literally means to awake, which is what a visit to this spa, can do. After all my walking, I choose the Texas Two Step Massage, a real treat for the feet beginning with a cooling cucumber-mint sugar scrub, followed by a hot-stone placement on the feet to work specific reflexology points and a soothing hand and foot massage. My feet were thoroughly soothed and I simply relaxed, and got lost with the melodic music. It was like walking on air to my room in the spa robe—I made the most of every moment. Throughout the resort are photos and art reminiscent of famous Texas musicians and historic homes in the region. An outdoor oasis includes an adult pool, hot tubs, active pool, a separate children’s pool, a poolside beach and a 1,000 foot Crooked River. Music filtered through the oasis and I just kept losing myself. To top off the evening, several fire pits were flickering and guests enjoyed relaxing and roasting a personal smore’s kit.

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