Dear Readers,

I hope you all had a great weekend. I wasted a lot of mine reading a 900-page history of Texas. (I didn’t read it all.) Which is weird because the only time I’ve spent in Texas is an hour and a half layover at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport in the mid-90s.

There are lots of other things I could’ve been doing: reading up on investment strategies, working out, organizing my sock drawer.

But I’m happy with how I spent my time. I might never need to know the details of the 1948 Texas Democratic Senate primary, and my sock drawer is still a mess, but anytime I learn something new, I feel a little more ready for living.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck