Good Monday morning!

How did you spend your weekend? I spent mine wishing it was warmer (what happened to the 50-degree Saturdays of earlier this month?) and, once I resigned myself to the temperature, I decided to stay inside and read most of Little Pancho: The Life of Tennis Legend Pancho Segura, by Caroline Seebohm. Prior to picking up the book, I had never heard of Segura, a poor kid from Ecuador who through a mixture of luck, charm and hard work became a tennis star who toured the world. Later, he was the tennis pro at an exclusive club in Beverly Hills, where he rubbed shoulders with movie stars and coached young players who would later become tennis legends themselves. Bonus: The chapters about Beverly Hills made for a nice escape from the chill of Lincoln. You can read more about Little Pancho here.

Moving on, an interesting article in the New York Times on Sunday: Is American poetry “about to run out of greatness”? Read the story for yourself to see if you agree.

That’s it for this morning. Hope your week is off to a great start!