Hello Reader, It was not my intention to write about this. As I sat down to compose a newsletter, it was just all I could think of; the only issue that floated relentlessly to the surface as I contemplated my life at present, and what I could tell you of it. This week under the water The first friend I ever had is gravely ill. I hate to think of her pain as she suffers under the side-effects of devastating treatment. Instead, my mind insists on carrying me back to our first play-date. We were...