New York Times best-selling author and founder of the popular Scary Mommy blog Jill Smokler died Monday of brain cancer. Smokler, a mom of three, was 48. She made a name for herself with unflinching honesty about the realities of marriage and parenting, and developed one of the biggest parenting blogs as the genre was emerging nearly 20 years ago. Smokler shared that she was diagnosed with glioblastoma in May 2024. This type of brain cancer is the most common and most aggressive type of brain