Joni Edelman

The FDA has approved a new drug for banishing double chins . . . it's ACID.

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

Our relationship has been a little complicated. I've loved you a lot, and I've loathed you at least that much, but mostly you've just gone unnoticed. Except for those 5 to 7 days every four weeks when you made your presence quite evident, what with the river of life blood and the random excruciating, and from what I can tell, unnecessary, contractions.

You should know that she is a really awesome human.

You may have seen the acronym "HAES" floating around the Internet, and that is because the "Health At Every Size" movement has taken over THE WHOLE WORLD.

4. A high school government class.

Compassion for myself is not a thing I do. It is not a thing I have ever done. It is not a thing I feel comfortable doing. It's time I stop for compassion.

photo credit: Lindy West (instagram), by

I’m lucky to be smart, to have an astonishingly good memory. Or maybe I’m lucky to be bipolar.

By baby three, well let’s just say things are a little anticlimactic, at least where furnishings are concerned. Hand me down crib. Check.