Friday, October 13, 2006

Lovely blog written on professional basis

When I read the following some two three years ago, I just couldn't have been intact. This woman just knows how to attract others to her blog:
“My parents raised me Mormon, and I grew up believing that the Mormon Church was true. In fact, I never had a cup of coffee until I was 23-years-old. I had pre-marital sex for the first time at age 22, but BY GOD I waited an extra year for the coffee. There had better be a special place in heaven for me.”
That is what Heather B. Armstrong wrote about herself. Her blog is one of the best I've ever stumbled across, although she has made a business of it as she accepted advertisements on her site. I like her blog for her clear English and her dry sence of humor. Her regularly published letters to her daughter are really worth reading, showing that she is a loving mother, totally doting on her daughter who is pampered, sometimes spoiled.
She is quite famous as she was fired from her job because “I had written stories that included people in my workplace”.Someone even dropped few lines about her in Wikipedia.
She has always seemed to me very level-headed even though she writes about her depression every now and then. But her latest entries have proved she has to cope with some serious trouble.


„So here we are, on the other side, and Jon and I are bewildered and confused and not sure where to start picking up the pieces. We can’t shake this creepy feeling that we’ve been violated in the most disgusting way, made to fear the loss of the roof over our heads. I firmly believe that the mystery illness Jon suffered in August was a direct result of the stress he was trying to cope with, the stress of trying to remain calm and level-headed as he watched his wife collapse frequently into a sobbing heap on the floor. I have not handled this well.
I have also felt completely responsible for putting my family through this, for being the reason that our futures were jeopardized, and the guilt of that has been almost too much to live through. There have been too many moments like the ones I felt two years ago when it made sense for me to go away, made sense for me to leave because they would be so much better off without me. But unlike two years ago I can actually see how idiotic thoughts like those are.“

She didn't tell what exactly is the cause of her problems, just indicated that she was sued: “I chose not to sign a contract and was sued because of that decision.“
This sounds wierd a little, but why not. She got a huge support from her readers, I read them yesterday but all the comments sort of disappeared overnight. Maybe she was afraid that some statements could make her case worse, just harm her and that's why decided to remove them. Some of them were really offensive to the US legal system.
Well, this could be the end of this entry but something has flashed in the back of my mind. What if publishing that tearful story is just the way how to trick people into reading, just clicking on her website because the more clicks the more money for all those advertisements? I have to admit I wouldn't mind actually. It is just my nature to doubt everything and moreover there are many worse ways of making money. I'll keep reading, just for fun, just for her English, for her tenderness.

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