An Excerpt from the Journal of the Global Love Association

I just returned from five days in Portland. My uncle Al brought me out there where he just moved for a new gig. He's an oncologist. He's my uncologist.

One morning, I sat on his huge back porch and drank coffee and breathed the freshest air I've inhaled for years. Trees surrounded me. It was my last morning and I'd already read the four day old Sunday New York Times. So I found a magazine called JAMA in their kitchen. And what other title but this could grab my peaceful attention?

A Network Model of a Cooperative Genetic Landscape in Brain Tumors

I sipped the hot black caffeine and read the abstract, the results, the conclusions; so many big words. What did it mean? Are doctors good at Scrabble? Crossword puzzles?

Then I read this happy introduction: Malignant gliomas, with disproportionately high morbidity and mortality,¹ are among the most devastating of human tumors. Ah yes, good morning indeed, I remembered.

And I remembered a rule: if Karla were here, she wouldn't have let me pick up that journal in the first place.

Why? Cuz here's her formula:



and it's simple, really, once you add l+o+v+e.