1. Virtually all macroeconomic problems are self-inflicted. FYI.

2. Being a man was important to King David.

3. Crop insurance can be, unnecessarily, confusing.

4. Maybe cowboys were not so religious, after all.

5. “What makes a man a warrior is his willingness to place himself between what he holds dear and anything that threatens it.”

-Steven Mansfield, Mansfield’s Book Of Manly Men (Amazon)

1. There is dignity in work, both in writing a novel and swinging a hammer.

2. All I need is silence and coffee.

3. Good-grief politics can be ugly.

4. Travel will shape you.

5. “There’s a difference between being careful and living in fear. The former will keep you alive, the latter will make you a bystander in people’s lives.” —Anna Fitzpatrick, writer

–Caroline Paul, The Gutsy Girl (Amazon)