Joni Edelman

...I’m going to help you! By “help” I mean “tell you all the things that didn’t work.”

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

You can work your butt off and still be left with a tummy. Bummer.

It's not always easy to find a new partner when you have kids in tow. But not only is it possible, it's worth it.

Body politics activist. Photographer. Chronic quoter of Monty Python. Unapologetic fat chick.

Brangelina are splitting up. A sad day for them, a joyful day for single ladies everywhere.

She says she’s worried that the cat, whose name is Jack, doesn’t know what’s going on. She tried to explain to him that she was leaving for a while.

Good god, where will I ever find someone who will love me in such a pitiful condition?

It doesn’t get any more difficult to insult ourselves, regardless of how old we are. It would be ideal if it got easier to respect ourselves, but it generally doesn’t do that either. Every year you age, and every year the aging you looks at the you of the years before and thinks, I can’t believe I thought I was fat/ugly/etc.