'I cannot be that person': why the 'Queen of the Mommy Bloggers' had to quit

Heather Armstrong: ‘You’re basically writing copy for a brand, is what you’re doing.’ Photograph: Heather Armstrong In a farewell post on her blog Dooce, Heather Armstrong exposed her readers to the dull and often grim reality of her life as the so-called Queen of the Mommy Bloggers – one dominated by hours on the phone with corporate sponsors, a security system set up to deal with abusive commenters, and rubberneckers who “throw rocks at our houses&#…