I don't consider myself an exile at all. I'm still a member of a number of New York City organizations. We'll be going back to New York to visit in the fall, and the third week in July we'll be at the Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, where I'll give a talk, as I have every year for some time. I have the impression that it is the word 'Texas' that causes this allergic rash in New Yorkers. If we had said 'New Mexico' or 'Arizona,' everyone would have nodded favorably.
Every day is sunny and bright, with a few white clouds going by.
Spring temperatures vary between 50 and 70, which is doubly delightful when I think of the cold in New York.