Joni Edelman

Are the advances worth the trade-offs? You be the judge.

Look, I'm not saying McDonald's did this themselves, I'm just saying, a lot of the people that work there probably agree.

When I had my first child, I couldn't have prepared for the way it would make me feel.

I want my kids to have an understanding of the truth of sex, the ins, the outs, the details no one wants to ask anyone—least of all their mom.

Silly me, I thought the darn thing took care of itself. Little did I know I was sorely mistaken and had a vagina complex.

When I was little, any time I got an insect bite or stubbed my toe, I had to ask my mom, “Am I going to die? If I was going to die from this, I’d already be dead — right?” I also had a 30-minute prayer that I needed to say at each meal or else everyone would be poisoned and die. And corners. I had to check all of them before I went to bed.

And what’s better than eggs? Eggs direct from the cloaca of your own chicken.

I just listened to my four and six year-old children (one boy, one girl) have a lengthy bathtime conversation about babies, growing up, m

I don’t think of myself as fat. Not inside, anyway.

You should know that she is a really awesome human.