Guest blogger Role Mommy weighs in on a Wall Street Journal profile of Mom blogger Dooce, who's making a mint from her family's foibles.

The Wall Street Journal just profiled the person I'd like to dub the Queen of the Mom Bloggers. Dooce, whose ongoing sarcastic travails about her life--which include bouts with alcoholism and post-partum depression--have created a revenue stream that has enabled her to turn her blog into big bucks.

In the piece, Dooce, otherwise known as Heather Armstrong, admits that while most people in the blogging community have embraced her site, many others have sent hurtful responses her way. Even more damaging, some of her private musings have even caused a rift in her family which she has since repaired.

As a fellow Mom blogger who unfortunately is not making millions from my wildly hilarious posts, I've come to the conclusion that I will never rake in the kind of dollars Dooce now commands. The reason? Simple--I am way too chicken to go there. Sure, once in a while I'll blog about a subject that dishes on a nasty neighbor or even a friend whose parenting skills I'm not that fond of, but I do my best to keep names out of the equation and pretty much figure that none of those people will be reading my posts anyway. So what do I have to worry about?

I'll tell you what. Moms don't just blog about their personal lives, politics and potty training. If you insult someone on the Internet, words can not only sting, as Dooce discovered, they can cause friendships to end or families to stop talking to you. And just think about what those teen cheerleaders did a few days ago when they beat up a "friend" who said nasty things about them MySpace. Talking behind someone's back takes on a whole new meaning when you air your dirty laundry out on the World Wide Web.

Even though there are times I'm tempted to riff about someone on my blog, I've realized it's just not worth it. Personally, I prefer sharing stories from my life that will put a smile on someone's face rather than go into some deep dark place filled with doom, gloom and misery. My personal feeling on Mom blogging is if Erma Bombeck were alive today, she'd be a blogger too and would hopefully approve of the path I've chosen to take.

I am not one of those people who trolls message boards from dawn to dusk complaining about marriage, kids and how I hate motherhood. However, I do love reading posts from gifted writers like Self Made Mom or author Tracy Beckerman whose posts instantly strike a chord, cause me to burst out laughing and inspire me to rise to the challenge and write an even better blog the next go-round.

The Mom blogger world is filled with incredibly talented and powerful women who are online each day sharing their experiences, contributing to social commentary and providing heartfelt expert advice. Sure there are plenty of people on sites blasting other Moms with mean-spirited posts or comments--like the one who told me I should take a lesson in grammar before writing another blog (gotta love these poison pen comments from the blogosphere).

But for the most part, the moms I've encountered along my personal mommy blog journey have been intelligent and inspiring. We may not all be rolling in the dough, but we're certainly making our mark and having a great time along the way.