She has dedicated 23 years teaching students about the arts; and she thinks it’s time to retire. Rixey just turned 65, so she said it is time to move on to some other things. Some of those things include traveling, visiting family, participating in a fundraiser at the Denver Art Museum (that way she can dress up) – She also plans to bring her horse to Colorado by the end of the summer from Wyoming; in where she works as a cook and guide in the Teton wilderness, and most important of all sleep in and watch The Late Show.