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[2 Feb 2007 | 5 Comments | 10 views]
Things have been chaotic and emotional for our family over the past week. On Monday, my wife's grandfather, J.W. Starr (known to his grandkids and great-grandkids affectionately as Papop), died at age 85 after a very sudden diagnosis of terminal cancer. Turns out the cancer had been incubating silently within him for a while only to make it's full presence known at the end. The time from when we first heard the heartbreaking news to the moment he died was less than a week. Fortunately, my wife scheduled a flight a couple of days before he died and arrived in...