Not for lack of trying, I have been unable to find dooce’s piece on the Today show. Did the Utah affiliate not air the fourth hour of Today? Does anyone watch the Today show for four hours? Maybe its the tivo, I don’t know.

Anyway, I was really hoping to catch it as it seems that the Armstrongs have gotten a lot of press lately and I have not actually seen any of it. But, it seems that certain citizens of the blogosphere have gotten some of their feathers ruffled over the Wall Street Journal’s speculation that Heather could make up to $40,000 in monthly ad revenues.

Certainly, I am a recent convert to blogging, but I am a long time reader of Heather’s blog.

And, it was all an accident-I didn’t know at the time that she was pretty much the pioneer of the woman/mommyblog movement. Someone that I had recently met, back in late 2004, told me to check it out- that she was a stay at home mom writing about living in Utah as an ex-Mormon. I was new to Utah and just thought I’d see what it was all about. So, dooce became the first blog that I ever read regularly.

Turns out I had a lot in common with Heather. She and I both graduated from high school the same year in the state of Tennessee. We both had little girls and we both lived in Salt Lake City. Among other things. I thought her take on being an ex-Mo was interesting.

Score! Friend for me. I left her comment after comment.

Work with me here. I’m no stalker, but I did email her and tell her that we should get together and get a drink sometime. I didn’t know that she is perhaps the most famous, recognizable face in the blog world.

Needless to say, she never emailed me back.

So, why are there so many sour grapes about her making money? Isn’t that we all aspire to do? To do something so well that someone wants to pay us for our efforts. Do what you love, love what you do, and you’ll be successful. Yadda, yadda, yadda, etc, etc.

Haven’t we all heard that one?

She’s great at what she does- writing. Doesn’t she deserve to do well? I’ve read a lot of her blog. I’ve never really understood her fascination with Radiohead, but whatever. Its her blog and her life and she’s a human being. It all hasn’t come easily or overnight.

When she started her blog with the post about Carnation milk whenever it was, like seven years ago, I highly doubt that she thought, “I’m gonna do this because one day I’ll make a lot of money.”

She lost her job because of her blog.

But, she’s good at it and kept on doing it. In doing so, she helped shape the world of the mommyblog, but she didn’t know it at the time. She was just posting her stuff, her well written stuff, on the internet.

Not to be all Pollyanna like on the subject, but I take Heather’s success to remind me to DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING THAT YOU LIKE AND DO IT WELL.

Who knows what kinds of doors will open as a result?