March
20
Seipp's Friends Blog Goodbye
Bloggers blog. And that's what one of my earliest blogger friends, Cathy Seipp, did until the very end. She fought lung cancer, having never smoked, for a remarkable five years. Her chum Amy Alkon rounds up the blogs written Monday by Seipp's friends as they waited to hear the inevitable news. So does Nancy Rommelmann. UPDATE: Ray Richmond gets her just right. And Cathy Seipp tops Technorati's search list.
Seipp was a strong-willed, clear-headed, beautiful, opinionated, entertaining woman who was fiercely devoted to living, her 17-year-old daughter Maia, her many friends, writing well, and her blog. Her Cathy's World community is massive; it is not unusual for hundreds of people to comment on a post. Seipp thrived on that energy. In an entry posted by Maia at her mother's hospital bedside Monday, she wrote, "she was very happy with this blog." I suspect that for quite some time, along with Maia, it has kept Seipp alive. UPDATE: She passed away peacefully on Wednesday. A funeral service will be held Friday morning.
[Photo by Emmanuelle Richard, LAist]
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She was one of those writers who found a truly personal tone of voice in her work, a style that made you feel you knew her. People who write fearlessly are a rebuke and an inspiration to the rest of us who are more cautious. I didn’t know her personally, but I will miss that voice:
http://www.nationalreview.com/seipp/seipp200603100816.asp
Posted by: David C | March 20, 2007 at 09:41 AM
What a sad piece of news. Cathy rented her Echo Park house to me, with its little rose garden and loquat trees, when I needed a place to live, about 11 years ago. She said she had been planning to rent to someone else, but she knew I was a writer and when I told her I needed somewhere to go (a relationship was sadly concluding) she immediately handed me the keys. I didn't know her well, and was, frankly, a little scared of her -- she obviously didn't suffer fools, and I often felt foolish and stammering in her presence. But her kind and spontaneous gesture towards me changed my life entirely. I sold my first script, written in that house, and matured into a professional person there. I used to see Maia, with her stunning eyes, and wished I knew Cathy better. I'm very sad to hear that she's gone, but reassured by the incredible outpouring of affection and love for her and for Maia.
Posted by: Angela Workman | March 22, 2007 at 10:36 AM
I think that Andrew Breitbart, over at NRO, described my experience with Cathy perfectly, though he was describing his own. He said that before he met Cathy he didn't know anyone, but after he met her he knew everybody. It sure felt that way to me.
I met David Chute due to following up a comment he made on her blog, and I have met many other wonderful people.
I wrote some of my experience of her over on my, very amateurish, blog http://cinerati.blogspot.com/2007/03/life-gives-you-cancer-you-make.html
Posted by: Christian Johnson | March 22, 2007 at 01:43 PM