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  1. I can’t remember when I first started reading CW, but I must have come over from NRO. The comments area turned in to quite the gathering place. This last month or two it’s been so strange, hanging around for news, passing the time, arguing, wondering why Cathy doesn’t ban so-and-so…someone said it was like we were playing in her back yard and she didn’t mind.

    I’ll miss her writing and her backyard too.

  2. Unfortunately, I never encountered Cathy’s World until the last week.

    The samples you posted of her wisdom, humor and grace are wonderful.

    It is a shame to lose one so gifted when she had much to say and the ability to say it so well.

    May God bless her family and lighten their burden of loss.

  3. Thank you for this post.

    I have read Cathy’s World for several years. I especially enjoyed when the daughter was younger, and Cathy would rail against the idiocies of the teachers and administrators at the daughter’s (Maia’s) school.

    Maia would be 14, then 15, well read for one that age, much more politically conservative than Cathy, and much disgusted when her teachers said something silly and liberal in class. Maia would spout off in class. The teachers would respond with accusations against Maia. Maia would write long, teenaged girl angst filled posts about the incidents at her blog – Cecille Dubois. Cathy would mention it at Cathy’s World. Maia’s post at Cecille Dubois would receive 100 comments excoriating the teacher. Maia, emboldened, would spout off again in class; then Cathy and Maia would end up, again, seated across the desk from an exasperated, harried, not especially erudite principal, who could not for the life of him figure out why these two crazy females kept disrupting his harmony. Oh, it was GREAT ENTERTAINMENT, during my earliest days in the blogosphere. Once, Maia’s teacher accused Maia of being a racist. That was good for 220 comments in Maia’s blog before she went back to school the next day, eventually followed by the inevitable trip of Maia and Cathy back into the principal’s office. Cathy eventually moved Maia out of that private school, and back into public school for her last high school years.

  4. nationalreview.comHere’s a Cathy NRO excerpt from Feb 2004:

    My 14-year-old blogger daughter got Instalanched last week, after she wrote about how her English teacher had ridiculed her in front of the class for writing an un-p.c. paper. I’ve heard what happens when the mighty Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds links you but never seen it up close, and it really is amazing: From 100 hits a day (typical for a teenager’s blog) to 100 an hour, with links to dozens of other blogs and almost 200 posted comments from Edinburgh to Auckland.
    […]
    Now that so many teens have blogs, concerns about doctrinaire teachers may be passé. Our sons and our daughters are beyond their control.

    You can read the entire column here:
    http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/seipp200402120821.asp

  5. She seems very wise, from the words you have quoted, Neo. It is sad to see such wisdom go from this world. Because in a sense, we need more people like her. But not even the mighty United States can stop death’s call.

    Not yet anyways.

  6. This is a wonderful tribute, neo, thank you. You have done a splendid job in articulating what was so inspiring about Cathy’s voice.

    Now that I think of it, the bloggers I have come to read on a regular basis are all writers who provide something uplifting at least part of the time. You are of one of them!

    Sad as it is to lose this lovely writer so early, I think she would appreciate the silver lining her death has brought: our recognition of the bonds that prose can create. The written word is a powerful thing, and it can be beautiful.

    Thanks again for using your beautiful voice to remember Cathy’s.

    And Carol, thank you for the image of Cathy’s backyard. I had that experience, too, but not the words for it. I think maybe that backyard will live on and on.

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