Joni Edelman

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

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.

I don’t think anyone who has been to the spirited child parenting rodeo would call a mother who screams, “bad,” or who loses her temper, a “failure.” I think we all understand parenting is really really hard from the get go, and parenting a kid who won’t sleep, who screams and kicks and says they hate you, is its own challenge

“I don’t even know what to say, Joni. Your baby isn’t alive.”

As a former Mormon, the Church's revelation that they're going to start “loving and accepting” the LGBT community makes me laugh. Hard.

The Cabbage Soup Diet, aka The "Torture” Diet. You just put cabbage in water and cook it. And you eat it. All day. It is not good. You will still be hungry, and farting — very smelly, paint-peeling farting.

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In today's HELLO, OBVIOUSLY news: National Coffee Day.

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