The Final Chapter
By Dave Chavez It’s been more than a year since we’ve made a post, titled “Looks Who’s Home”. A lot has happened, so here we go. First, the tone of this entry. Since we started this blog Dad has periodically brought up the subject of this final post. “Do you think it’s going to have a happy ending?”, he’d ask, and we’d laugh. I don’t think we’re the kind of family to set false expectations. From us you won’t hear “Don’t worry, I’m sure everything is going to be okay”. We’re a little more realistic: “If the ending isn’t quite what you want, who gets your truck and the .45 semi-automatic?” (model 1911, US Govt Issue) This story is a good one. Mom and Dad are home now, both “cancer free”, settling back into their normal routines. It’s about as simple as that. It wasn’t easy at all. But as they’ve lived their lives, they got through all of it without complaining, by not giving up, challenging the status quo an...