Joni Edelman

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

How do I raise a boy to love and respect all women regardless of size in a world where he is bombarded with images of what is attractive?

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

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.

My cocktail is wrong. It’s a gin and tonic with only gin. It’s a martini with 10 olives. And I can’t stand the sun. Not today. Not this month.

The argument against homeschooling is always the same: “Kids need to socialize.”

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.

photo credit: Lindy West (instagram), by

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