I am sitting in an orientation meeting for an exercise program, the joint research project of the local cancer center and the university to determine—I’m not sure what: whether exercise improves our ability to survive cancer? Whether it improves the side effects from cancer like muscle loss, loss of appetite, depression? I am thinking that…

We were minding our own businesson a backroad cruisewhen the wheel began a thumpin’…Don’t you hate bad newswhen your life’s already bumpin’?It ain’t anything you’d choose.We got the flat tire blues.No, this ain’t no ruse—We got the flat tire blues. So we dug out the jack and the pitiful spare;the only thing easy was at…