1 year ago
25
Heather Armstrong, the writer and writer hailed arsenic the “queen of the mommy bloggers” aft launching the palmy parenting website Dooce successful the aboriginal aughts, died by termination connected May 9. She was 47.
In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2023
The blogging satellite has mislaid a pioneer.
Heather Armstrong, a writer who kick-started the mommy blogging inclination by chronicling her parenthood travel connected her website Dooce during the aboriginal aughts, died May 9, according to a station shared to her Instagram page. She was 47.
"Heather Brooke Hamilton aka Heather B. Armstrong aka dooce aka emotion of my life," the May 10 station read. "July 19, 1975 - May 9, 2023. 'It takes an water not to break.' Hold your loved ones adjacent and emotion everyone else."
Armstrong died by termination astatine her Salt Lake City home, her fellow Pete Ashdown told the Associated Press. He noted that Armstrong had experienced a relapse aft being sober for implicit 18 months.
Armstrong began blogging nether the pseudonym Dooce successful 2001, rising to mommy blogger fame arsenic she gave an unflinching look into her household beingness connected the domain of the aforesaid name. She wrote extensively astir intelligence health, her betterment from intoxicant maltreatment and insights into motherhood arsenic she raised daughters Leta, 19, and Marlo, 13, whom she some shares with ex hubby Jon Armstrong.
She told Vox successful April 2019 that she looked toward herself arsenic "someone who happened to beryllium capable to speech astir parenthood successful a mode galore women wanted to beryllium capable to but were acrophobic to."
In her past blog post, dated April 6, Armstrong thanked Leta for her enactment amid her sobriety journey, writing, "Here astatine 18 months sober, I salute my 18-year-old frog baby, she who taught maine however to love."
Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images
"One of Leta's top talents is the mode successful which she views the world," Armstrong continued. "Her photography resembles 8 mm movie footage. She sees practice successful the mundane, worth successful the slightest alteration of hue. She extracts airy from each signifier and shadow."
Armstrong's occurrence arsenic a blogger led to her publishing a 2009 memoir titled It Sucked and past I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown and a Much Needed Margarita. She was antecedently named by Forbes arsenic 1 of the 30 astir influential women successful media.
She is survived by her 2 children.
If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize needs help, telephone 988 to scope the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You tin besides telephone the network, antecedently known arsenic the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, astatine 800-273-8255, substance HOME to 741741 oregon sojourn SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for further resources.
