Welcome to the Team

(Or, Fins Up)

I’ve adopted a new mantra:

“Welcome to the team.”

Not the most original phrase, but one of the clearest.

This tide of cancer has both taken and returned something essential to me: the truth that I work best on a team. It’s not that I’m not self-driven (clearly, survival itself proves otherwise). But the work that has brought me the most meaning and the mos…