I was thrown a curveball last week. More like a knuckle ball. Prior to that I went to England to see my oldest friend, Reuben. A year earlier when I’d been to see him, retired at 77 and living in his beautiful house and garden, he greeted me with, “Michael, I have good news and bad news -- bad news is they found cancer, the good news is that they think they caught it early enough to cure."