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Heather Armstrong, who runs the most successful "mommy blog" on the internet, and her husband Jon have written posts on their respective blogs that they are no longer living together. Jon added that Heather has asked him to find work outside of Armstrong Media, the blogging empire the couple founded that became so popular it was featured on Oprah. Both Heather and Jon, who have built a business around broadcasting their lives publicly on the internet, have asked for privacy and understanding as they work through this. More »
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Regular readers of Dooce know that blogger Heather B. Armstrong gets a whole lot of hate mail. Yesterday, she launched a site featuring entertaining examples of it, surrounded by advertisements galore: A little something she calls Monetizing the Hate. More »
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Yesterday's Oprah focused on the "new" kind of motherhood, in which women use humor to share experiences, mistakes, and lack of maternal instincts. Heather Armstrong Skyped in to talk about how her blog "saved" her. More »
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Sometimes the mom blogosphere seems like an international conspiracy to halt the human race. Like the most recent episode of the video blog Momversations, in which four mom bloggers talk about sex after having a baby. "It took a really long time for me to feel like a woman…maybe a year, maybe more, maybe a couple years," says Nataly Kogan. Dooce's own Heather Armstrong admits that she didn't have sex for seven months after her daughter was born, and in an interesting analogy, Mindy Roberts says, "I've never seen a kitchen that turned out anything that was worth eating that didn't get all messy and icky in the process." More »
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I can think of one positive outcome of John McCain's putting those dismissive air quotes around women's "health": it seems to have inspired many women to share their own natal health stories, no matter how heartbreaking. In today's New York Times, N. West Moss talks about the secret pain of miscarriage. "To the extent that we have a language to talk about miscarriage, it’s full of airy platitudes," Moss writes, but the reality is a deep, sometimes unyielding ache. More »
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Heather B. Armstrong, aka Dooce — whom people persist in calling a "Mommy Blogger" even though she's so much more — was on Nightline last night, talking about her blog and her family. I particularly related to the sweet relationship between Heather and her husband, Jon, whom she calls a "hot geek." Jon talks about how when Heather first started the blog, he used to be really uncomfortable about her discussing their life. "I'm a more private person than Heather," Jon explains. But they clearly worked through it with grace, and now the blog is so successful that Jon works for Dooce. "I get to sleep with the boss legally!" Jon exclaims. Clip above. More »
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Talk about ice queens on the Today show: This morning, Heather B. Armstrong met with Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford to talk about her award-winning, groundbreaking blog Dooce — is it just me or doesn't it seem a bit unfair to call it a "Mom Blog"? — and sat on the couch with her arms crossed the entire time, looking cold. (In temperature, not in spirit.) Maybe she was simply preparing herself for Kathie Lee's line of questioning. About three minutes into the interview, Kathie Lee admitted that she has "mixed emotions" about Armstrong's chosen line of work, then quickly changed the subject to tease the show's next segment about home decorating. Clip above. More »
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• We were so into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints and their Yearning For Zion Ranch, where girls in their early teens get married off to gross molesty old men with multiple other wives, none of whom are allowed to wear red because that's Jesus' color.

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The Wall Street Journal peeks inside the — controversial! impassioned! and dare we say even more narcissistic than the regular blogosphere! — world that is the mommy blogosphere today, and first of all, we regret to inform you that self-righteous Babble daddyblogger Steve Almond quit last week in a fit of self-righteousness. And I meant to go trolling for more pointless mommyblog controversies with which to display some sort of snarkpower, but then I got sucked into the life of "stay at home mom or Shit Ass Ho Motherfucker" Dooce. Dooce is the superfamous blog of Heather Armstrong, a former "unemployed drunk" and depressive Hills fan and abundant resorter to profanity who got fired for internet indiscretion once and pretty much is the living blogging manifestation of my greatest fear: that not even expelling a human being from one's vagina is enough to make people like me grow up. More »
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