TCP Talk

Pavlova Forever

Wow! The whole family loved it, which is miraculous [Berry Burst Pavlova, May 2023]. My granddaughter says that’s what she wants for her birthday cake every year—for the rest of her life. She’s 24.

Mary Riley, Bryan Texas Utilities | College Station

A Vanishing Tongue

Auf Wiedersehen [May 2023] was a bittersweet read. Less than a week earlier, in the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post, it was reported that upper-level studies in German would no longer be offered at the high school, as only half of the minimum registrants required to offer the classes had signed up. How sad.

The UT project participants certainly have their work cut out for them.

Françoise Wilson, Central Texas EC | Gillespie County

I grew up in Fredericksburg hearing Spanish (or Tex-Mex), English and Texas German. Talk about confused. When I moved, someone asked if I was from Fredericksburg. How did you know?, I asked. Your accent.

Julie Ausbrook | Via Facebook

In Texas and Beyond

The assertion that if you can learn to surf the sloppy chop in Texas, you can surf just about anywhere is true, as I have been able to surf in California, Mexico, Hawaii and Japan [Surf Your Turf, May 2023].

But I must point out that Brad Lomax’s partner in the Texas Surf Museum was Pat Magee (not McGee). If you look at the background in the photo of Brad Lomax, that’s Pat surfing in the blue trunks to Lomax’s right.

Joe Bonorden, Pedernales EC | Canyon Lake

Recalling Kitty Hawk

Although I didn’t serve aboard the Kitty Hawk, I was deployed in its battle group in 1984 while serving aboard the USS Long Beach, and we were there in the Sea of Japan on March 21, 1984, when the collision with the Soviet nuclear submarine occurred [Breaking Up, February 2023]. I have a photo of that damaged Soviet sub in my home office. Thank you for the well-deserved remembrance.

Thomas Mueller, Fayette EC | Rutersville