Heather Armstrong

Three Blog Posts We Loved This Week

The Huffington Post | Emma Mustich | Posted 11.16.2012 | Parents

This week in Parenthesis, Heather Armstrong draws deep truth from a moment of panic, Mike Adamick admires the reflection of his own “nerdery” in h...

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3 Must-Read Blog Posts About Parenting

The Huffington Post | Emma Mustich | Posted 10.24.2012 | Parents

Read More: Mom and Dad Blogs, The Spohrs Are Multiplying, Dooce, Mom Blogs, Dadcentric, Best Mom and Dad Blogs, Mommy Blogs, Parenthesis, Mommy Bloggers, Dad Blogs, Heather Armstrong, Mike Spohr, Parents News

This week in Parenthesis, Homemaker Man gets a pocketful of fairy dust, Mike Spohr ruminates on the importance of old friends in dark times and Heathe...

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The Best Mom And Dad Blogs This Week

The Huffington Post | Emma Mustich | Posted 07.20.2012 | Parents

Read More: Dooce, Mom Bloggers, Mom Blogs, Sleep Training, Marissa Mayer, Kelle Hampton, Mommy Blogs, Best Mom and Dad Blogs, Parenthesis, Mommy Bloggers, Heather Armstrong, Dad Blogs, Parents News

This week in Parenthesis, Kelle Hampton goes dancing, Joanne Bamberger offers Marissa Mayer advice, Heather Armstrong tries in vain to get better slee...

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The Best Of The Mom And Dad Blogs This Week

The Huffington Post | Emma Mustich | Posted 06.22.2012 | Parents

Read More: Mom Blogs, Parent Blog Roundup, Mommy Blogs, Motherhood, Fatherhood, Parenthesis, Parent Blogs, Parenting, Mommy Bloggers, Dad Blogs, Heather Armstrong, Summer Vacation, Parents News

This week in Parenthesis, we wander down memory lane with Ellen Seidman, celebrate a 3-year-old’s birthday with Heather Armstrong, observe as Mike S...

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The Week's Best Parenting Tweets

Posted 04.20.2012 | Parents

Read More: Top Tweets of the Week, Elizabeth Banks, Twitter, Top Tweets, Alyssa Milano, Best Parenting Tweets, Slidepollajax, Susan Orlean, Heather Armstrong, Tweets, Solange Knowles, Parents News

If we had to highlight just a single favorite parenting tweet from the past week, it would be this gem from Susan Orlean, hands down. But other moms a...

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WATCH: Mommy Blogger Reveals Why She Wrote About Her Split

Posted 04.16.2012 | Divorce

Read More: Dooce, Divorce Blog, Video, Heather Armstrong Separates, Mommy Blog, Dooce Blog, Heather Armstrong Split, Dooce Divorce, Heather Armstrong Divorce, Heather Armstrong, Divorce News

Heather B. Armstrong, whose "mommy blog" Dooce.com garners nearly 100,000 readers a day, stopped by the "Today" show Monday to discuss why she decided...

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Why The Twenty-Seventh Month Is Best Of All

Heather Armstrong | Posted 06.03.2012 | Parents

Read More: Mom Bloggers, Dooce, Heather Armstrong, Leta, Letters to My Daughter, Leta Letters Book, Mommy Bloggers, dooce.com, Parents-Moms, Parents News

I'm not sure what has made this last month so special, but I find myself gushing to everyone I know that this age has so far been the best one. This is something I have seen other parents do, talk about the age they liked best, but until now I haven't been able to jump in with much enthusiasm.

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Divorce, One Blogpost At A Time

Lisa Belkin | Posted 03.20.2012 | Parents

Read More: Ali Edwards, Dooce, Divorce, Bloggers Divorce, Heather Armstrong, Jd Roth, Parents News

Over the past few weeks a number of well-followed bloggers have used those blogs to announce trouble in their marriages. Is the blogosphere at its best when it serves as a group therapy session? Or at its worst?

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Alt Summit Shows Blogosphere as New Bohemia

Estelle Hayes | Posted 03.19.2012 | Home

Read More: Melissa McArdle, Heather Armstrong, Alt, Kleenex, Michelle Le Blanc, Design Sponge, Dooce, Sara Urquhart, Gabrielle Blair, Kate Schoening, Grace Bonney, Pretty Mommy, Hp, Altitude Design Summit, Hgtv, Reverie-Daydream, Home News

Nowhere is the scope of this creative scene better realized than at the annual blogger gathering known as the Altitude Design Summit, a kind of Sundance meets Burning Man for the online art and design community.

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Back to Bangladesh -- Day 2

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 08.21.2011 | Women

Read More: Dfid, Brac, Unfpa, Care, Erin Thornton, Impact News, Julie Smolyansky, Christy Turlington Burns, MDG 5, Chris Austin, Bangladesh, Maternal Health, Usaid, Heather Armstrong, Women News

Narshingdhi, in Bangladesh, is a community that has suffered the losses of too many women in pregnancy and so has organized itself to make a change.

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Back to Bangladesh -- Day 1

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 08.20.2011 | Impact

Read More: Dfid, Brac, Fazle H. Abed, Care, Unfpa, Erin Thornton, Julie Smolyansky, Christy Turlington Burns, MDG 5, Chris Austin, Bangladesh, Maternal Health, Heather Armstrong, Usaid, Impact News

Given that Bangladesh is one of the countries in the world with the highest burden of maternal mortality rates, the latest news of significant improvement on that front gives me great hope.

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The Quest for Style

Anita Tedaldi | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

Read More: Grazia-Magazine, Vogue, Italy, Fashion, Rome, Style, Dooce, Donna Moderna, Huffington Post, Heather Armstrong, Style News

I've come to realize that style is an essential part of everyone's life, expressed through fashion, living spaces, or simply in the ways in which we handle ourselves in different situations.

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Say Something Nice

Libby Mitchell | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Dooce, Chickenliver, Civility, Heather Armstrong, Bloggers, Blogging, Healthy Living News

Please, bloggers, just because you can say something, just because it makes you feel a part of an online "family or "clique" doesn't mean you should say it.

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One Lucky Dooce: Stay-At-Home Mom Rules Blogosphere

Jill Yaworski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, Blog, Heather Armstrong, Stay-at-Home Moms, Dooce, Media News

Heather Armstrong believes posting "persistently and consistently" is the key to success. By updating her Web site at least once a day, Armstrong's readers continually check Dooce for new material.

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