• http://twitter.com/Sadandbeautiful Sarah R. Bloom

    I’m kind of blueish, but fantastic, so hooray!
    Thanks. I’m digging the daily affirmations.

  • http://twitter.com/CarenJew Caren Jew

    Yes. Like.

  • Molly Duncan

    Thank you for the daily affirmations.  They are helping me through my personal challenges right now!  Stay strong!

  • Kimberly Hooper

    Really like this one!  

  • s …

    it’s so weird reading dooce then coming here now… made me think that whatever you’re going through there’s this:

  • Anonymous

    I am finding it difficult reading Dooce and then coming here. I don’t know either of you personally, but I’ve read you forever, it seems, and I always used to think that you, Jon, did WAYYY too much around the house and with the children. I used to think, “Doesn’t Heather DO ANYTHING??”  I always thought that maybe it was because of her depression. But then, I also suffer from depression and am on two medications to help me stay sane, and I manage to (mostly) do it all. So now I wonder if you needed to play the hero and wanted her to be dependent on you? I read Dooce, and Heather is dying inside and I can see it in her eyes and hear it in her words and it breaks my heart. And then I come here, and you are all: “Oh, look at my pretty picture”. And the daily affirmations make you sound callous and shallow and, well, like an asshole. And then I think, I don’t know, maybe you are the one who needs her to step up, maybe you need to be selfish for a while. I don’t pretend to know the first thing about what went wrong, I am just having a very hard time understanding it all.
    Sorry if I’ve offended. I needed to get that off my chest.
    I’m sure you realize that we (the Blurbodoocery fans/community) are all mourning, but still hoping for the best…

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1067882126 Lisa Pfab

       I dont see it that way. We dont know what happened, or who was the person that instigated  the seperation. Heather is dying inside, and yes she sounds very very distraught by this, but I get the feeling she asked for him to leave. I see things on her blog that make me think she is going thru a period of her life, that is about her. I think that to me it sounds as if for years he has been holding her up, making them all function in a normal way, in a not normal life.And I know for a fact that dealing with someone with mental illness is NOT easy.
      I dont know you Jon, or Heather, but I do know that my husband and I (of 26 years) went thru a period this summer that made us think our marriage was over, and with hard work, and open communicatioin we are doing better than we have for many many years. You can have you family back, but it will take 2 people that are committed to it. Good luck, hugs to you

  • Anonymous

    Great photo, although I saw this as completely stark. Now I’m forced to study the photo and my own perception of what “stark” means to me. YOU! …making me think on a Friday.

  • Diane McGee Hardin

    I *hate* the daily affirmations. 

  • Laura Gaunt

    “because it seems obvious you’re not doing the right thing for Heather or your girls.”

    Jon — how do you possibly stomach these comments? People kill me. “I don’t know anything really about your life. But obviously you’re doing everything wrong, you dick.”

    I know you’re no stranger to this game, but it kills me. I want to punch these people in the teeth.

    You’re awesome. Say 100 daily affirmations. Post them here. Write them on your forehead. People can be such assholes.

  • http://twitter.com/PMBassett1 P&M Bassett

    I’m stoked for you! Be happy–you deserve it, everyone does. I have no idea what’s the truth with you or Heather. For all I know you could both be taking a page from Kim K’s book and orchestrating this drama. It’s certainly starting to feel that way.

  • http://twitter.com/FriedTaters Frank Ingram

    funny to read these comments.  IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT JON!  But, I guess that is what you are used to hearing.  Be happy.  Hire that hooker I was talking about.  Life is too short to spend it with freaking crazy people.

  • http://twitter.com/ibebloggen ibebloggen

    Geez! Just went back to read previous comments — the whole separation situation makes the picture above a bit more clear now, I’m sorry to hear/read that. I was an avid reader of Dooce and sometimes Blurbomat and just now came across your sites after 3 years. 

  • Slwatkins

    I am astouded at the people who throw blame around about 2 people they don’t actually know and have nary a clue as to why they are seperated.
    Ignore the stupids. People haven’t a clue as to how wholly draining it can be to live with a
    mentally enfeebled person until they’ve actually lived with one.…
    Said from a gasp…Conservative– how dare I stick up for a Liberal– the world is all upside down now ;P

  • An Urban Story

     I find this picture particularly striking.