https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:42:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2329895 Tue, 11 Jul 2023 20:13:12 +0000 Laurie 2329895@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm reading both of her books off and on - the one about childbirth and her post-partum depression, and the one about the sedation treatment that she tried to treat her depression. It's hard to believe she's gone - I can't imagine the impact on her girls, especially since she expressed so powerfully and beautifully and prolifically and publicly her love for them. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2329345 Fri, 07 Jul 2023 06:02:05 +0000 Anne 2329345@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I was sorry to hear about this. I was an early reader and she had been on my radar screen since, but most notably over the last several years for her very public downward spiral on social media that was both frustrating and sad to watch. I feel as though her kids have probably been through a lot in the last 3-5 years as she struggled, and my heart goes out to them that they've lost their mother and any hope that she might beat her demons, plus having to deal with the emotional aftermath of suicide and death in general. The whole situation is sad on so many levels. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2323420 Thu, 18 May 2023 17:06:56 +0000 judy 2323420@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you for the links!&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2323408 Thu, 18 May 2023 15:43:44 +0000 Laurie 2323408@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you, April.&nbsp; His guest wrote a good article:</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://jopiazza.substack.com/p/how-will-your-obituary-define-you">https://jopiazza.substack.com/.....define-you</a></p> <p></p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2323293 Wed, 17 May 2023 12:30:45 +0000 April 2323293@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show did a very moving appreciation this week:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/remembering-dooce/">https://www.wnyc.org/story/remembering-dooce/</a></p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2322858 Sun, 14 May 2023 18:43:42 +0000 judy 2322858@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I came back to edit my post here as what I had written just wasn't sitting well with me.&nbsp; I was a reader of her blog and appreciated her artistry with words, and her photos too.&nbsp; Wishing her and her family so much peace.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2322725 Sat, 13 May 2023 20:16:50 +0000 Barbara Diane 2322725@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I hadn’t heard of her. The entry on her daughter’s 5th birthday is so touching and funny and real. What a loss. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2322619 Sat, 13 May 2023 00:49:11 +0000 Janet 2322619@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh no! This is the first I’m learning of it (been a bit out of the news loop this week). I do remember her blog. This is very sad. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2322546 Fri, 12 May 2023 18:39:23 +0000 MsMary 2322546@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It's just heartbreaking. The whole dooce.com archive appears to still be online. I just read Marlo's birth story again and it brought me to tears. RIP, Heather. You fought really hard for a very long time. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2322509 Fri, 12 May 2023 15:27:17 +0000 Laurie 2322509@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Some of the tributes have included links to her archived entries. Its weird, I just feel a need to share more about her for those of you who didn't read her blog.&nbsp;</p> <p>Here's a typical entry from 2009, written to her now-19-yr- old daughter, on her 5th bday: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110623041120/http:/www.dooce.com/2009/02/04/newsletter-month-sixty">https://web.archive.org/web/20.....onth-sixty</a></p> <p>This article from 2011 captures Dooce in her prime, I remember every thing and person it refers to:</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27armstrong-t.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">https://www.nytimes.com/2011/0.....referringS</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2322450 Fri, 12 May 2023 12:04:44 +0000 RobinF 2322450@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I also heard this yesterday but wasn't familiar with her. Very sad. My heart goes out to her children especially. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2322434 Fri, 12 May 2023 11:14:22 +0000 Helena 2322434@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I wasn't familiar with her but did see the story in the news ... So very sad. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2322414 Fri, 12 May 2023 07:18:30 +0000 bella 2322414@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am so sorry to hear this. I used to read her blog years ago (before she divorced her husband) but hadn't really looked her up in a long long while. How tragic and difficult for her daughters. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2322377 Fri, 12 May 2023 01:30:43 +0000 LJP 2322377@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I saw this on a few different media sources today but admit to having no idea who she was . Very sad though . </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2322367 Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:10 +0000 Style Fan 2322367@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>How tragic.&nbsp; I will look up the blog.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2322359 Thu, 11 May 2023 22:18:26 +0000 Angie 2322359@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I remember the blog. May Heather Armstrong rest in peace. Utterly tragic. Wishing her loved ones strength through this gutting time, </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dooce#post-2322357 Thu, 11 May 2023 21:50:12 +0000 Laurie 2322357@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I was just devastated to learn of Heather Armstrong's death yesterday. I wonder if there are any other fans of her blog, Dooce, among our YLF community? She was considered the original "mommy blogger" but it was not sweetness and crafts, believe me! Dooce was the first blog I really followed, and I fell in love with the style of writing and publishing, the intimacy of blogger and reader, and specifically I fell in love with Heather Armstrong and her headstrong, hilarious, raw and honest way of sharing her life. She, like Angie, posted every single day at the height of her popularity.</p> <p>Her death, and life, was well covered by many media outlets yesterday. She struggled desperately with depression, which led to alcoholism, anorexia, and eventually suicide. She left behind the two daughters to whom the entirety of her work was a love letter.&nbsp;</p> <p>I can't find any of her early work online, which is a shame. I had not been following her much in the recent years that she really descended into this dark time, but I read quite a bit of her current writing last night and it was heartbreaking.</p> <p>She was a beautiful woman, and very stylish. I have a necklace that she wore in one of her posts, from an artist named Kristen at Minoux Jewelry in Portland, OR. It is 5 delicate hoops of silver on a chain. It was called "Circle of Friends" and I gave it as a gift to many friends over the years while Kristen still sold it. It feels symbolic. I just sent a note to Kristen....</p> <p>Amazing how deeply some people who we never meet can touch our lives.&nbsp; Sending out love and life-affirming gratitude for the YLF circle of friends. </p>