I've never met him, but will have the oppertunity to do so this weekend under the most unfortunate circumstances. His daughter tragically passed away due to heart and lung problems last Friday after a month long battle in the ICU. She was almost nine month old.

I could never know the pain and grief her parents must be feeling right now, but I'm in a relatively similar stage in my life with a daugher born only a few months earlier and when I try to put myself in their shoes I fall to pieces. She will be greatly missed, and even as a casual reader of his weblog I can tell she made them very proud to be her parents.