(Community Matters) It’s become a ritual that we share a “Thanksgiving” meal & spend a night with two of our very best friends, Charles Santos & Rickie Bond, on our way to Shawnee, OK for Thanksgiving with family. This year Garfield Lemonius joined us (in from Pittsburgh where he teaches modern dance at Point Park University).
Rickie & Steven decided to stay home, eat healthy, catch up, laugh and cry. There are two people with whom Steven regularly laughs so hard he cries – Rickie & Kip Keller. Charles, Garfield and I out to Jorge’s at the Dallas Arts Complex where Charles presents music and dance.
On the drive up, had to stop in West to pick up kolaches and rolls for the tribes. Joe & Tana’s long time friend, Mimi Irwin, was at her shop (Village Bakery). Nice seeing her again and introducing her to Steven. We loaded up.
For folks who like picking up kolaches while barreling I-35 down from or to Dallas/FW, well worth the extra 2 minute drive to leave the highway and drive a mile into town. Mimi’s father established West’s first Czech bakery in 1952. Fresh ingredients, no preservatives – plenty of everything hot & ready to eat, or frozen, ready to be taken home and baked.
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