Tim Chavez, a former Tennessean columnist and a local blogger, has died from his battle with leukemia. Tim had made it through a two-year battle against the disease and returned to the Tennessean after an extended leave to find out his position had been eliminated. Recently, he was told the two words no cancer survivor ever wants to hear, “it’s back.”

I’d never met Tim, but I read his work on his blog, Political Salsa, regularly. He was one of lots of people out there in the Internet that I’d sorta gotten to know through what they wrote. Tim was the one who broke the news about Juana Villegas. I will miss him. ACK has more.

Ultimately, Life is just life. It’s having God with you in the good and bad times and always being appreciative for every good day you have and everyone you can tell you love and always being grateful when God has gotten you through a bad day and all its fears.

Cancer is a foul, vicious disease that tears at the families as well as those who suffer.