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dooce.com is a personal blog where Heather B. Armstrong publishes dated posts about her own life, and the site organizes older material into named archives such as the Marlo Archive and the Leta Archive. If you want to read first-person writing on sobriety, family, and mental health, or browse back through years of posts, the homepage and its navigation are where you start.
What the homepage shows
The homepage is a running feed of blog entries ordered by date. Each post carries a title, the author's name, and a publication date — for example, the entry "You're the one that I wanted to find" is credited to Heather B. Armstrong and dated April 6, 2023.
Below the posts you'll find Posts navigation, the paging control that moves you to older or newer entries. That's the main way to walk backward through the blog's history rather than jumping straight to a specific year.
The named archives
Two archive links appear directly under the post header:
- Marlo Archive
- Leta Archive
These are named collections, most likely grouping posts by subject or by the person they center on. The site itself doesn't label them beyond the names, so treat them as curated buckets rather than a full chronological index. If you're looking for a specific period rather than a topic, Posts navigation is the more reliable route.
What the posts are actually about
The content is personal narrative, not news or reviews. The excerpt on the homepage is a long first-person account of early sobriety — marking six months sober on October 8th, 2021, describing grief and isolation, and crediting an online friend (referred to as "Hanky Plankton") for the metaphor that early sobriety is like "living life as a clam without its shell."
Recurring themes visible in the material:
| Theme | How it appears |
|---|---|
| Sobriety and addiction | Detailed reflection on the first months of being sober |
| Mental health | Descriptions of grief, shame, and physical reactions to psychological pain |
| Family and children | Referenced through the Marlo and Leta archives |
| Personal history | Mormon upbringing and church youth-group memories |
How to browse it
- Open the homepage to see the most recent post.
- Read the current entry, then use Posts navigation to step to earlier posts.
- If you want a themed set instead of a timeline, open the Marlo Archive or Leta Archive links.
- Expect long-form, first-person prose — posts run to several paragraphs and are written as personal essays, not summaries.
What you won't find here
The page evidence shows no pricing, subscription, or login signals, so nothing here confirms paid tiers or gated content — but it also doesn't confirm the site is free or open without an account. Treat access terms as unstated rather than assumed. There's also no category index, tag cloud, or search box visible in the material, so topical discovery depends on the two named archives and manual paging.