Thanks for this. I am posting this on Amy's site too because I just can't bring myself to say it any differently.
Cathy Seipp was a giving and down-to-earth person, despite the weird rants against her from some who thought she was "too conservative" or "too Hollywood" or "too snotty" or whatever the fuck. Even her "favorite Wanker" must agree.
I grew up in her neighborhood. We are, were, the same age, and I know how truthful it is that she rose above not her "class", but above the expectations that must have been thrust upon her just from daily living in, at that time, a small town driven by bored cops busting kids on bikes while drunk rednecks in the local bars became folk heros.
Now, Los Al is pretty much Medical Metropolis, with streets literally clogged with cars searching in futility to find parking spaces for the huge amount of medical buildings on the corner area of Bloomfield and Katella.
Ironically, people whose ailing lives are being stalled, or rather having their deaths hastened, for medical attention by this little town that can't seem to understand zoning concepts or the need for supporting infrastructure , somehow presaged the sad fate of their brilliant grown-up daughter, who in my view, has done the town great honor in the way she has led her life.
But that is not from where she grew up, at least during her teen years. The town was smaller then, complete with a secretive sanitarium on the corner of Los Al Boulevard and Katella, and an old fire station on Los Al Blvd. that eventually became a museum. I always remember a profile snapshot of her from her teen years, beautifully Grecian in nature. I only wish I had known her then. Simply living around the corner did not grant me that pleasure.
I did email her from time to time, before I knew our somewhat common roots, once I saw some of her articles in, I think, "Buzz". She never needed to respond to me, with what the hundreds of emails she received daily. Not to mention the ones who seemed to be with her all the time in cyber-print ("First!"... "Second!") and that is understandable. Why? Because she was opinionated, she knew her mind and her heart, she cared about everyone, as exhibited by her ability to spar with both sides of the political spectrum, and for me, because of the way she spoke of her daughter, even by pseudonym until Maia was ready. Maybe it was her being an amazing, giving, and influential single mother, that rocked many peoples' world.
She always did write back. With honesty and a down-to-earth quality that is hard to find.
I am thankful that she was "pushed" to start up her blog. It was a huge gift to the world.
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Yeah Cancer seems to get them all. It got my dad when I was 17 and I am now helping my uncle get thru Chemo. Lifes a Bitch then you die!!
Hey Becca,
Thanks for this. I am posting this on Amy's site too because I just can't bring myself to say it any differently.
Cathy Seipp was a giving and down-to-earth person, despite the weird rants against her from some who thought she was "too conservative" or "too Hollywood" or "too snotty" or whatever the fuck. Even her "favorite Wanker" must agree.
I grew up in her neighborhood. We are, were, the same age, and I know how truthful it is that she rose above not her "class", but above the expectations that must have been thrust upon her just from daily living in, at that time, a small town driven by bored cops busting kids on bikes while drunk rednecks in the local bars became folk heros.
Now, Los Al is pretty much Medical Metropolis, with streets literally clogged with cars searching in futility to find parking spaces for the huge amount of medical buildings on the corner area of Bloomfield and Katella.
Ironically, people whose ailing lives are being stalled, or rather having their deaths hastened, for medical attention by this little town that can't seem to understand zoning concepts or the need for supporting infrastructure , somehow presaged the sad fate of their brilliant grown-up daughter, who in my view, has done the town great honor in the way she has led her life.
But that is not from where she grew up, at least during her teen years. The town was smaller then, complete with a secretive sanitarium on the corner of Los Al Boulevard and Katella, and an old fire station on Los Al Blvd. that eventually became a museum. I always remember a profile snapshot of her from her teen years, beautifully Grecian in nature. I only wish I had known her then. Simply living around the corner did not grant me that pleasure.
I did email her from time to time, before I knew our somewhat common roots, once I saw some of her articles in, I think, "Buzz". She never needed to respond to me, with what the hundreds of emails she received daily. Not to mention the ones who seemed to be with her all the time in cyber-print ("First!"... "Second!") and that is understandable. Why? Because she was opinionated, she knew her mind and her heart, she cared about everyone, as exhibited by her ability to spar with both sides of the political spectrum, and for me, because of the way she spoke of her daughter, even by pseudonym until Maia was ready. Maybe it was her being an amazing, giving, and influential single mother, that rocked many peoples' world.
She always did write back. With honesty and a down-to-earth quality that is hard to find.
I am thankful that she was "pushed" to start up her blog. It was a huge gift to the world.
Doug Mason
Anaheim, CA
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