I don’t know if this is my place or not, so I apologize if I shouldn’t be talking about this so soon or at all. I’m not sure if it’s appropriate to take my grief public like this, but I just have to, because this day is just destroying me and this is all I can think about doing right now.

We lost one of our bloggers here at the SodBlog this morning, Crystal Reid (she went by Candi Striper). Crystal was all of our friend, and the wife of our admin Rod. They were married this last Saturday. I had been planning to liveblog their wedding, but I ended up not attending because of circumstances, and now I have something new to regret for as long as I live.

Crystal put a lot of hard work in on the behind-the-scenes work here at SodBlog, and she also contributed a lot of very amusing, very outstanding blogs. I would encourage you to read each and every one of them, and also the LiveSod LiveBlog category, where she was a frequent participant in liveblogs of the Presidential debates and of awards shows. They can give you an idea of what a wonderful person she was.

Needless to say, we are all beyond sorrow here and I just want to say, on behalf of Nate, Kelly, Chris and everyone else who contributes to the site that our thoughts are with Rod today and our prayers are with Crystal that she has found a better place today. Thank you for everything, Crystal, and we will all miss you so very much.