From Carolyn Wylie

Happy belated birthday, Debbie!

Your various messages came while I was in England having a wonderful trip to belatedly celebrate my retirement. I saw some of them when I checked my e-mail at Mandy Woods' house near Oxford, but didn't have time to really look at the blog then. Now I'm back in Texas and have been enjoying the photos and messages and art. I am totally blog-intimidated so won't try to post anything myself. [So we posted it for her. --Ed.]

I have fond memories of a tapas dinner at the Driskill and of the orange cat you gave me that you were calling Gandhi because he was staging a sit-in at your door. (I renamed him Leo because I couldn't imagine standing at my own door calling "Here, Josephine [my other cat], here, Gandhi . . .") Unfortunately I don't have any photos of him. I can vouch from my own experience that 50 is a good age; in fact everything up to and including 64 has been good so far. I'm glad you're both well and happy in New Mexico. If you ever get back to Austin with any spare time, Hal and I would love to see you.

Carolyn Wylie